Now is the time. I feel it. It must be. If it's not even at 35, then clearly it won't be. We need to give a new meaning to our lives. Yes. My whole body is ready to the last cell. It asks for it. We are no longer children. Even ours are waiting. What's more, everyone. At every major meeting and grouping the question persists in the air. All right, what are we missing? I love you and you love me. But you don't, you always want that soft, smooth latex film to keep us from feeling completely free.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Mușetescu / 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. 
