What do you see? A ship is coming towards the harbour, the shining golden sea, I can't see the flag very well. And seagulls are diving in the waves, next to the fishermen's small boats, he continues, smiling. And look: a beautiful woman watches in the distance, waiting. I hated him for his early injury that had brought him before me to the front hospital and given him the right to choose the bed by the window. If only he would die. That night he died and in the morning the bed was empty, and I was screaming I want his bed. And they moved me. But beyond the window was a wall.
(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. 
