St. Peter went out the door of Heaven and said a little wearily: The next one. A plump, grossly tattooed man, who is occasionally slurping something from a brown
paper-wrapped bottle around his neck, professionally spits to his side and, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, says to the messenger: I'm not coming in. You are scheduled, said the saint patiently. Shaking his greasy mane and swaying his legs, the creature muttered: I've been in this room before. I'm going home to the canal. Down, now he's resurrecting me.
(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. 
