Leave any human delusion at the gate, it was written here, big and intimidatingly. I enter. No stargate like in Stargate SG-1, no aliens, only humans, but different. They're playing hopscotch, keeping score, riding unicorns that spit rainbows out their bottoms, and most curious of all, they don't seem to be sad. I got here through mysterious ways, out of my own will or that of God's. Confused, I put down my bag, go to one of the humans and pinch him. What's your problem, mate? He turns to me. I can see him. He was me, but happy.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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. 
