the Sky mumbled and flashed his thousands of bright eyes towards the Earth. And then he proceeded to dance around it, like warmth does around the fire, always showing a different, starry cheek. IT IS, whispered the
pinhead-sized Lake from underneath, throwing his silvery reflection back to the Sky. The Sky bent down to watch him. And because the Lake was small, small like a pinhead, the Sky bent even more, and more, until he immersed himself in the Lake completely, leaving behind a print on the water's surface. It is, he whispered.
(Translated by Cristina-Bianca Ion / 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. 
