I tiptoe out of the hiding, unwind my frail body in the smiling morning sun, and let myself be carried away by a warm breeze. Light as a dandelion flake, I continue my flight to the pair I was given. She did not wait, greeting me with a barely perceptible trembling of her wings. We let ourselves be bathed in a drop of dew, and then we are rocked by a blade of grass. We sit on a burdock leaf, bathed in the silver light of the moon. We smile, dreaming of a new generation of ephemeris.
(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. 
