When I first heard your voice, two stars started shining in the universe. Vividly. You were talking and laughing, I was falling irretrievably in love with you. You were laughing and talking, I was flying close to Heaven. The sound of your voice left such a deep mark on the depths of my hopeless mind that its effects were devastating. Suns and clouds clashed and so much light burst out that I was blinded on the spot. I would never be able to regard the morning after the way I did before. Nowadays I descend into the earthly world only if I am endowed with your words from back then.
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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. 
