I accelerate through the white tunnel of headlights knowing it's just a short time before the road on the high cliff curves around the bend, my back to the sea below. I just have to keep the steering wheel straight, then comes the flight, the brutal impact and the horror of the slowly unrolling moment, the lurching and floating. At the end of the straight road, a flash in the clouds shows me it on the solid line. Barefoot, unfolded, whipped by the storm, arms outstretched, embraced and crossed, but with eyes seemingly dancing. My life is beautiful like that. I step on the brakes.
(Translated by Lorina Xiaoyu Hou / 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. 
