Hey, does anybody know what's going to happen to us? It's said they're gonna beat us to a pulp. No, I've heard they want to gas us. Or shoot us. Or hang us. It's no good either way. That's certain. Maybe we've done some mistakes too, but I wonder, do they know that this is the way politics work? That we wouldn't have done a thing had the people not accept it? How long we're gonna stay here? Nick, man, you should know how long for they're gonna keep us in here. How long we're gonna be here? I thought your
five-year plan is done in four and a half. How's time measured here, in purgatory?
(Translated by Ana Spînu / 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. 
