Today I felt what it's like to be celebrated - I felt it in my taste buds, in my eyes and ears. The universe chose its resolve and set up the stars and planets in my favour. Life chose the ordinary event and surprised me in unforeseen ways. Hundreds of thoughts descended upon me, with voices cheering miracles. I felt beauty in my soul and thank you all for that. I have never felt this sort of luxury and opulence like I do now. And you, all of you, are guilty. And I forgive you, and thank you.
(Translated by Carla Bețianu / 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 May 2022, the group has 8,350 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. 
