I've been thinking about putting that kind of windows on the roof. It's kind of dark in our attic. Look, here in the middle we'll put a bed with a soft mattress, the kind that hugs you as you lie down. We'll come home tired from work, and we could use a moment with the stars. Eyes up, watching the galaxies. All around we'll lay flowers Lots and lots of flowers. Now they'll have light. Let's pretend it's already done. We'll lie down, tuck our dream in and seal it with a good night kiss. Tonight I'll bring a vase of lilacs.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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. 
