I was in the Indian Ocean, and I was looking for treasures on uninhabited isles. I had my own helicopter. When I landed on Bongo Island, I was greeted by the Molobongo tribe. To them I was a god descended from heaven. I stayed there mostly because I was spoiled. I had the best food and the most beautiful women. I civilized them and started a beautiful business with tourists from the whole world. I couldn't unteach them one thing: eating people. Tourists always disappear.
(Translated by Roberta Ana-Maria Gulerez / 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. 
