I am a lucky man. It's very easy to let your emotions or primal instincts take control. I don't do that. Sharp mind, always hungry, and a warm and open soul, I am the cumulation of things chosen carefully from the brightest minds, aspiring to the greatest ideals and achieving them. Not restricted by mundane obstacles in my path to success, perfectly tailored, I forgive like a Christian, only making asymptotical mistakes on the way to perfection. Despite all of this, I am alone and unsoothed. With no love, I'm only half a man.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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. 
