I sailed the literary creation sea and every time I wanted to drop my anchor, I would find places taken over by titans. I revolted, asking for rights for dreamers, poets, novelists and other misunderstood ones. Of course, I never got an answer. In desperation, I promised to remain anonymous and got thrown on a peninsula that has been reserved just for me. I finally have my own place, but it's taboo. No one visits or appreciates it. The ones on the mainland have been initiated and recognised and have long left this territory of the novices.
(Translated by Carla Bețianu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In November 2021, the group has 7.500 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
