19.09.2022
God, it's time. It had been a long time, it is quite a lot of dripping on the eyelids left. Skin, cornea and kidneys go to children, liver divided, as well as tendons, fingers, ears. Words are erased, good deeds are forgotten, bad deeds no longer have power, thoughts are lost, memories are veiled, I remain so easy. A whisper trembles in the steam, what about my heart? It often broke away and slapped herself in the face with derision, but in the last hour it has hope. It will live, somehow, in someone else another life.

(Translated by Diana Stănescu / 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.

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