Good morning, I would like a hearing with the king. Please wait. Which is what I did, benefiting of a comfortable armchair through the kindness of the secretary. In the distance I heard the city's noise, firstly under the form of market traders and carriages, then the sounds became rather clangorous. I saw the sky darken and some unusual birds passing by, leaving behind them streaks of light. When I was brought in to the king he did not look like one I knew because 500 years had passed.
(Translated by Delia-Maria Cocoș / 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. 
