You are not a number, but an important sum. You are 20 skillful and agile fingers, you have two hands and two feet, you have Our Trinity with you, you are an infinity of harmonies and disagreements, you have all five senses, even, in full, the sixth. Trust everything, get up and walk. That's what he said to me and looked at me with a gentle smile. And if I still slip into the spirals of life, what should I do? A transparent bag waved in which I saw my eyes, my lips, my brain, my heart. You know, take another placebo overdose.
(Translated by Georgiana Carmen Rădulescu / 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. 
