With the 24 hours I had left to live I made myself face my life, stuck between its empty half and its full half. Time is ticking. I stretch out my hand and open a door. I saw you. And waited for you, unwavering in my greatest form, with no gravity and sincerity that reaches the corolla of a mythical tree. But you never came. You were just floating in your antimatter, blind and deaf, feeling around in the bubble of your own universe, as always. The full half of my life is telling me to go back and rather open a window.
(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. 
