I've always worshipped Sânziana. She lived each day like it was the last. If you gave her a mirror, she was not afraid to look into it. She carried the weight of her life with dignity. She smiles to those who loved her and to those who betrayed her. And her smile went around your heart and stopped in your chest, beating strongly: is somebody there? You could only open wide your windows, for the light to go in and the demons to go out. The night she left, The Heavens and The Earth came undone craving. Since then, it's been raining flowers, to wash away our sins.
(Translated by Ioana Busuioc / 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. 
