I suffer from a verticality that can hardly find solace in today's raggedness. I crave adequacy like the foal craves complete harmony with the mare that conceived it. I never lie, while elegantly avoiding the truth. I dress all black, while loving colors till paroxysm. I unconditionally love my fellow colleagues, while carving stairs from their corpses. I show a seductive smile, while mischievously sharpening my words. I adore women, while remaining faithful to my mother. I'm Gelu and I'd like to offer you the opportunity to get to know me.
(Translated by Marta Fulga / 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. 
