Are you asleeep? I hearda sweet, soft voice like a thin stream of spring water while I was turning on one side. Sorry, are you asleep? the voice goes on and the thin stream becomes an incontrollabledrop of water which forms ditches on the convolutions of my brain. I did not mean to bother you; the voice can now be heard clearly and I already feel flooded on the inside. My sleep was gone just like an object which cannotbe recovered from a whirlpool. Could you... could you maybe make room for me to lie next to you? Everythingididwrongandeverythingididntdoandallihavetodo said and found shelter inside me.
(Translated by Valentina Mihai / 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. 
