When the sky opened up for us to dive into the real world, each of us was assigned a deserted peninsula to shipwreck on. Linked to the mother land, but stuck in his world, each tried to communicate in his own way in the scarce moments when they admitted their reality. Come on, Andrew, smile. Look, another letter, it's D, d. It's followed by E, from the little elephant you sleep with. From her corner, Larisa seems to hum something inintelligible. She now seems sad even though she's smiling most of the time. The autism keeps her somehow isolated, but that strip of land of hers hasn't been swallowed by the waves yet.
(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. 
