Dear God, please turn me into a silent stone, a cold piece of rock, so that I may never lie to another again. If a craftsman is to find me, he shall renew me, carve me, and I shall embrace his every strike, just so I can sit in a beautiful house. If a child is to find me, let him happily throw me into a lake, just so I can lay in clear depths. One more thing, God, do not give me shine, for if a lover is to find me, he shall make me awkwardly sit upon a ring finger, and I shall lie once more that love is forever.
(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. 
