It's been a long time since she disappeared. I asked everyone if they knew anything about her. Some said that she gave from time to time a sign, but nothing of importance. I don't know where she is, I don't know if she can last much longer, maybe she's too disappointed in me and doesn't want to come back, but I know I can't give up looking for her. It was stupid to ask someone else to find her, that's not how things work. But sometimes I'm too tired and I dream of heroes that will come to my aid. Sometimes I wish my hero and I weren't one and the same person. But we are.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
