It's a blessing that I don't know how many more days I have here. I like to live like I'm not going to die soon. The clock strikes every morning at 6:30. I drink my coffee, I enjoy the light. I have my plan for the whole day in mind. The day is for others, but the evening is for me, I can read, listen to music, walk or watch a movie. If I were to die tomorrow at this time, he would probably catch me listening to Bach and reading a book. Too bad I won't find out the end of the book. Fortunately, they all have an end in this world.
(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. 
