Last night I dreamed that I finally wrote a genius-500-characters text. I heard it on radio being read by no other than Piersic Junior with his extremely catchy voice. This is what made the text even better, quite excellent. He said at the end that it was written by patient 022385 and shortly talked about his clinic for writing addicts. We thought what if the limit is 500 characters, they will eventually give in. On the contrary, they write 10 texts on the same topic each day. We don't know what to do. What decision should we take?
(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. 
