A call waking you up in the middle of the night, someone tells you something, then asks you if you are alright, you open your mouth not being able to say anything, the handset slips out of your hand, but it's too late, because Fear already entered your right ear and you feel it collapsing between your ribs like in an armchair and it asks you Do I bother you, can I hang out here for a while, and you storm out of yourself shouting Moooom, and from above you look at yourself, curled up on the rug, helplessly waiting to be born again.
(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. 
