Joining the Real Fiction group is a luxury, you feel rich, fulfilled. You scatter words, you gather likes and comments, you rejoice like a child, you laugh out loud or you cry like an autumn rain, you dress up as each character, you are king and beggar as you please. If you're lucky enough to be published on LiterNet.ro, it's already opulence, you feel like you're becoming famous, you wake up in the morning and hurry to see if they've published another one of your stories. And if they translate you into English, you're in the top 300.
(Translated by Lenuța Bejenaru / 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. 
