His soul had been drifting for years, his thoughts had lost their geography, his desires had wandered the cardinal points. In the troubled ocean of feelings, the glimmer of love barely flickered. He knew, if he closed his eyes they would be completely extinguished. The beads of sweat trickled dewy on the glass globe at dawn, then dripped into a puddle, but the perspective from which he watched them made it seem as if they were rising. He lifted his eyes and saw them, remembering them all. There were all five of them. Acrux, Mimosa, Gacrux, Imai, Ginan.
(Translated by Adrian-George Ilinca / 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. 
