I should have been born in full Aries, determined, unempathetic, energetic, ready to turn the world upside down for my needs. I showed up 3 weeks early, a Pisces that doesn't swim, emotion-sensing in denial, ready to believe in your goodness while feeling very clearly that you're miserable. I could have been the one who wakes up early and gets exactly where she wants to be, with the others in the house holding onto her sidecar, exhausted from the journey. I'm the one who would sleep in order to dream, but stays awake to fantasize, with life passing artfully and pointlessly by.
(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. 
