Dear morning stars, supernovae, merchants of illusions, fairies vibrating on a covered universe, beggar princes tearing up shards of lyricism, Eve adorning the fictional tree with apples entangled with snakes. My pen does not compare to the overflowing thought that comes from the good feeling that came from the opportunity to read about you, dreaming that you dream of me, writing to you to the place where envy spits out rubies of admiration. I wish you, in 500 characters, maximum inspiration, zero sweat, with plants to fictionalists and grass to realists.
(Translated by Diana Pașcanu / 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. 
