You look around the room and declare that you had only a bag of books and many dreams. But I know that was the last train. You fought, literally, climbing the pyramid of bodies that were desperate to catch a spot in the coach. While my world was crumbling, I handed you the manuscript with shaking hands, begging you to save it. Then I watched heartbrokenly how the train was disappearing into the horizon. Today, beyond the screen, you give warm thanks to your fans. On the smoky cover, a train runs towards freedom. Your name, my story.
(Translated by Camelia Diaconu / 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. 
