It's the biggest lie I'm telling myself. That I still have time. Time to be me, to do what I want and feel, time to change the script. The truth is, I've been on loan for a long time. Ever since I bury who I am and put clay on a statue that no one will worship, not even me. If I had one more day, but really mine, for myself and what I love, I would move history. I'm currently moving letters to fit. A limit that, once reached, allows me to lie that I am fine, I ticked another day in which I comply.
(Translated by Laura-Elena Dobrin / 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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
