I'm watching a documentary about my life narrated by Morgan Freeman and I feel like he's taking himself too seriously. In a grave tone, over these sepia images from back when I was a little boy, he talks about how much I loved the sea. From up here, a teenager, I can see myself floating, my body heated by the kiss I stole from her on that blue, starry night. Another shot - our little girl pulling me by the finger with the strength of a dragon in flight. His biggest treasure, the voice goes on, was always daydreaming.
(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. 
