My name is Maozedong, and I must tell you I've been reincarnated. Given the greatness during my lifetime, it was only natural that I wouldn't find myself within a single being. I am multiplied in billions of billions of spiky beasties, small and vicious. Not even I know their number. Although they are the simplest of
life-forms, they are extremely skilled at taking other lives, especially the lives of those who don't believe in their existence. Well, zai jian, kisses. I'm meeting Hitler's, Stalin's and Ceaușescu's reincarnations for a game of poker.
(Translated by Ioana Diana Sandu / 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 December 2021, the group has 7.750 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. 
