We don't arrive, we hit the gate with a mace, thump, splat, I am free, I do what I want. If you have received this body, this mind and a destiny, honour the incarnation contract. Everything has a purpose. And if you don't understand it, this doesn't exonerate you. The lives you live are neither acts you throw away when you exist the stage, nor night dreams. They are your duty and your karma. Do you understand? Now put your wings on and sign here. Good. You will live on the shoulders of a blonde little girl, with a snub nose and eyes warm like honey.
(Translated by Daniela-Andreea Gugescu / 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. 
