Not that we didn't have books at home, but I loved going with my grandmother to Mrs. Dreaming's. When I found a
Pif-Hercule magazine, even without a
gadget, I would immediately fondle it, thumb through it carefully and then read it while sinking into an
old-fashioned armchair. I wanted another life, so I could have it, for at least an hour. I'd penetrated as far as I could into the world from which the heroes had departed, I was already travelling upstream to their creators. At the demolition, I'd get the armchair back. I'm still looking for it.
(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. 
