Ferrari brought in the summertime from the country to the house in Antibes,
long-legged mistresses, duplex in Marais, villa in Courchevel, the best
full season dining at Le Club 55, a life full of
luxe, calme et volupté even more fauvistly lived than Matisse had painted it. The man with the most
longed-for existence died unhappily in a luxury asylum in the south of France. When they found him in his last model of wheelchair, Boss 6 Series, a smirk froze in
rigor mortis and his hand had clung on to a book:
Man's Search for Meaning.
(Translated by Oana-Roxana Dicilea / 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. 
