Do you remember? We drank all the rum from the Crew Bar and we crowded into the freight elevator to continue the party in your small booth, but full of nice people who spoke Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Turkish, English, Italian, Bulgarian. Today, after 10 years, we don't laugh. We don't dance. We just hold each other in our arms, speechless. My house is not big, but it fits all of you and, as we managed to spend on the ship in 8 square meters, we will spend this war in the two rooms that I share with you today.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Mușetescu / 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. 
