Between us, labels. Shiny or faded, new or old, current or outdated. Stupid. Lazy. Bitchy. Punk. Insensitive. Imbecile. Thief. Bastard. Unfaithful. Conceited. Liar. Sinner. Poor. Ugly. Boring. Illiterate. Pasted on top of each other, chaotically, cutting us off at every corner. And who doesn't hate paper cuts? Harsh and hard to pass. Well, the truth is, there are also the rounded ones that don't sting. Kind. Beautiful. Gentle. Giving. Loyal. But they're still in drawers, unused.
(Translated by Andreea Grințescu / 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. 
