I walk a lot. My thoughts are in a Formula One race: What should we have for dinner? A cream soup. Who doesn't like it should just starve. Maybe I'll get to finish writing that article. I think it's been 3 months. What's the theme for Fiction? Yup. I've been thinking about making a character, an uncasted actress. I could approach the themes from this perspective. Maybe at some point - and I didn't get to finish my thought, because I got hit by something. Three seconds of darkness, then a bright light and a breeze. I'm a seagull, damn it.
(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. 
