This is my whole life. Doesn't seem like much, because it's not. It's mostly just words on sheets, frozen feelings among the yellow pages, images, thoughts, beliefs, hopes and dreams. The most precious is a book written by the authors, Mom and Dad. I also have a book written by me, about the women who lightened up my life, my dreams and my imagination. I don't know if there will ever be readers. Because almost everything is trivial. My soul is just the rustle of pages in an old book.
(Translated by Liliana Popescu / 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. 
