'What, all these persons have the same problem?', asked someone from the medical commission. Indeed, they all live in the same apparent real, but fictional world. What are their symptoms? They all write on demand and claim that they enjoy it. What's with everyone here on the edge? I see, they give likes to show support. Why are some leaving comments over there? What else should they do, since their task hasn't been changed lately. Oh, a new one was given just now and how interesting it is! Now, leave with the nurse, I have some work to do.
(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / 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. 
