About a week ago, you've rented mea place into your heart. The truth is that I felt at home from day one. Even though you were renovating, you gave me a room on the ground floor with view of the moon, but I told you I wanted to see the whole house. You took me by the hand and showed me what the old tenants had left behind in the atria and ventricles. I wasn't frightened, even if for a moment I felt like I was in the Museum of Broken Relations from Zagreb. I felt your pulse on my wrist and I said tenderly: I can help you if you promise me that the attic faces the sun.
(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. 
