I left everything behind. Jim says that here in the jungle heaven we only have to believe. I look him in his blue eyes and I see the Truth. Purification is Renunciation. Obedience. Humility. I don't care about punishment, I deserve them for the moments of doubt. Jim knows everything, he sees our souls and reads our thoughts and fears. He loves us. We are 900 souls ready for passing. We are going to drink the potion with the smell of sour almonds, we are going to lay on the earth and before receiving the Redemption he'll find out that we love him. Tomorrow we won't hesitate.
(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. 
