The rabbit comes out of the top hat and greets the audience with a bow. Dear guests, welcome to the Overture. As you know, this is the antechamber of our show. The place where you wait for the Beginning. Choose from the menu your area of interest. Select the features then filter them. For refining your choice, sort out the events' order. Remember that your stay is limited to the years that you have been assigned at the Entrance. To Exit, press the red button. The End is not here, stay with us, applause.
(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. 
