I do some work in the V.I.P. area, read an epitaph written by an obedient poet, pull out a weed, and throw away some wasted candles. You need some good connections to get deep into Săpânța's mysteries. Suddenly, I feel a quake beneath my feet and very clearly hear: Dear, get out of the twists of the tangible and take me away from the synergy of acts, can't you see these guys have defiled the values? May the sky tumble and fall, I've reached the dinosaurs again. I pour in another wheelbarrow's worth of dirt. You animal.
(Translated by Bianca-Maria Ciucașu / 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. 
