You want to know what it feels like? Well first of all you're tired and you can't wait for your colleague to come and take your place. You go into the locker room, take off your tunic and get into another pair of pants. You say goodbye and leave. You get home and take a shower, trying to wash all that smell of death off of you. But it won't come off, since it's not stuck on your skin, but in your brain. After that, you go to sleep and dream about everything that had happened the night before. And then you wake up thinking that you, or even worse, someone close to you, will be next.
(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. 
