You were not capable of doing anything right in your life. Even when you overcame your fears and left yourself at the mercy of the waves headed for a shipwreck, you were not capable of finding a deserted island. One island. From all the islands in the world. And now you're whining that your family of two kids and a doggie is shipwrecked. That it's smelling of grilled meat rolls and club music. That the little one is ruining your sand drawings. In fact, you're jealous that his are better. How do you put it? More authentic. You wanted to be paterikon and ended up pathetikon..
(Translated by Ana-Maria Denisa Neagu / 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. 
