She suffered from severe regressive bibliomania. Her name was Alis Magianu, a nun from the village of Singurei. Since her youth, she had turned herself into a
second-hand bookshop. She had merged read worlds and endless universes so that the twinkling of her eyes were labels to shelves of carefully ordered books. She had books to treasure: all of them. She'd lay down to sleep on one at a time. Every night there was a different character of the world beneath her head. By day, she ached for a world that was no longer hers. The noblest and most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Don Juan.
(Translated by Andreea Grințescu / 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 April 2022, the group has 8,175 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. 
