Not right in the yard, but close by. For a month I had been following a UFO whose lights could be seen through the ceiling of clouds. It appeared in the evening and roamed the sky all night. I was putting on a hoodie and running after him, street by street. My girlfriend had left me, she said I was making fun of her. Even the boss didn't understand why I was sleeping at work and fired me. I felt that the moment he would land was near. Maybe today. Then I found out that a
high-powered laser projector had been installed at the local club.
(Translated by Alexandra Cica / 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. 
