I am still waiting. I wake up in the morning and I'm waiting: to understand where I am and what's my role here. I try to remember. Yes. I get out of bed. I wait for the coffee to be done. What do I have to do today? Yes. I quit smoking, didn't wait until I get an incurable disease. Life is quite incurable even without cigarettes. Should I walk or take the car. I wait to decide. Yes. It is cold outside and the trees are bare. When has winter come? What have I waited for the whole autumn? Don't get me wrong, I love my life.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / 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. 
