The words had taken deep root in the greyness of the mind and they appeared flashing like a bright advertisement: you have to wish for it and it will happen. And when the wishes had many ways, I'd lie down in the fresh-smelling grass, and the mind would take off into all possible worlds and live out all versions of the story. At the end, weary, it gathered like a fetus in the womb, and toasted a glass of amniotic fluid, in the birth of a future story.
I am what I choose to live.(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
