I put the key in the lock and I hear a savage horse neigh. I'm thinking that it was only an illusion, but here they are, in the flesh. When I enter the room, I'm left speechless. On the green, velvet armchair is sitting a woman with surreal beauty, crying softly. While sobbing, she mentioned the name Vronski and a kind of handsome man, with a mustache that seemed like a musketeer tried to comfort her, while the old man with long white hair on the sofa is dreaming about rowing on the restless sea. Now I'm convincing them to go back to the library.
(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. 
