This family of mine, at the beginning, used to live in one book, and then it extended through more and more books. I couldn't wait to reconnect with it. I did what I had to do very fast, thinking that, if I finish fast, I'm left with more time to see what each of the ones that I welcomed into it were up to. Don't think that there were welcome only the good and beautiful ones, no, there were also some that the author created absolutly hideous, thinking that I'll get them on the right path. At the end, I gave it up, I left them like that.
(Translated by Maria Cătălina Moisescu / 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 July 2022, the group has 8,750 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. 
