Today mortals are offered a miracle. They get time. They can kiss and hug again. They can ask for forgiveness or say goodbye. For the immortals, surprises are long in coming. But they get memories. Maybe the first love, the first tears, or the first accident. As for the Creators, they will discover a new activity, idleness, accompanied by the pleasure of doing nothing. Be careful, it's addictive. We still do not know anything about the others. Perhaps the Universe beyond is writing a new zodiac sign.
(Translated by Andreea-Daniela Vasilache / 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. 
