The barbarians have come. They raped the women and killed the animals. The law no longer applies. Only the will of the commander. Arbitrary, depending on his condition. No one is equal to him or his own. To live in fear and disorder. Long live the mob who, until yesterday, saw in him a saviour. Now they kept their eyes closed, because the truth was burning their retinas. Only a boy and his puppy waited for the night to come and run to the land of One for all and all for One. Hey, Toto, what if it doesn't exist? We create it.
(Translated by Andreea Tobă / 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. 
