The important thing is to send the wish to the Universe. When I wanted to go to Italy, I put a picture on my desktop, on which I wrote in Calibri font that I WANT TO GO TO ROME. Six months later, I was eating pizza on a terrace near the Colosseum. When I wanted to buy that brand dress, every time I opened my laptop I saw the ethereal ruffles and the magic words were written in Arial font: I WANT THAT DRESS. After three months, I was walking proudly around the world in an ethereal outfit. Now I'm keeping an eye on the word VLAD and waiting for my neighbour to knock on my door.
(Translated by Oana Georgiana Minea / 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. 
