The inert body was laid down on a table levitating in an infinite space. A gigantic character was examining every inch of its flesh. He was wielding a device through the universe inside it, bypassing the galaxies, crossing the constellations, and listening to the vibrations of the cosmos with an invisible stethoscope. At some point, he stopped at the blue bead. He dissected it with some stars. When he saw how much trash the Earth was burying, he decided to destroy it. Then he changed his mind. On the shore of a sea, a child was cleaning the sand from dirt; he wanted to build castles.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
