I touched the fold that dropped perfectly from the ceiling, it was a heavy curtain made of red velvet. The fingers then pushed it slowly, the fabric warped under my eyes more and more, until other fingers touched mine on the other side. My scream left a trace behind, from which I thought that they can trace me. Useless. I was gone. It's an illusionist, I heard my mom say in my dream, he wanted her and he took her, without her beginning to understand what was happening. Actually no, mom, it's a real sorcerer, he took my soul, I shouted through the stars.
(Translated by Claudia Cioplea / 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. 
