In the first few seconds I think I would. Not. I'd better. Yes, that's the wisest thing to do. That's what I'm going to do. Do you realize that I will no longer be? It's absurd. No, I don't accept that. I'll live my life until yesterday, when I didn't know that. What if it really happens? I need to call my mother, my wife, my lawyer. My mother told me that if I was ever going to die, I would let her know what she was doing for alms. So is my wife, only she's worried about a widow's dress. The lawyer is the only one who wants me alive.
(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. 
