They whispered aggressively, trying to surpass each other, to impose themselves by unfolding a range of expressive arguments, just as a peacock wags its imposing tail. Each tried to suffocate the other, so that they would remain above, to push them into oblivion, so that they would remain visible in all its splendor and be seen by the whole world. A blink of an eye and a veil of light dispelled the swarming thoughts and melted them. When he wakes up, the man gets into bed during the day as if on a tram on rails.
(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. 
