I'm not a traditionalist or a conservative. Don't call me progressive, because I don't like that either. I am neither a nationalist nor a globalist. I'm not connected to history or borders. I have given roots, but I have also created new ones. I am not Abrahamic, nor am I a Buddhist,
pro-vaccine, or
anti-vaccine. I am a man who sneezes when he has a cold, who bleeds when he cuts himself, gets hot when he is kissed and cries when he is abandoned. I don't have a club. Or maybe I have. The club of those who live on a strip of hope. That I can still live.
(Translated by Andreea-Alexandra Șerbănescu / 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. 
