My classmates stuck a note on my schoolbag that says
"jojo-keke-ster". I'm different. My mind runs fast, angularly. It forms surprising connections. The equations embrace each other in acknowledgment. The words dace through colors and graceful rhymes. When I want to articulate them, however, they clash together, they all make way for the other, and so remain stuck at the exit because they are being too polite. My mind is filled with rainbows, and
never-before-heard stories. And they will remain unheard because they know that only when written can they become reality.
(Translated by Constantin Istrate / 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. 
