You need to decide today, the doctor's voice roared like thunder in our ears. Brain death is imminent. You could save 4 lives, his steps fading in the obscure hallway. There is only a faint throb that I can feel in my temples, of blood being pumped to keep me shackled in here. Who are they? If I could, I would break this silence to tell them that I no longer feel alive, that my memories have faded away in a rainbow of thoughts and my soul is filled with light. How can I tell them that I am swept away day by day by angel wings and I dance with the clouds?
(Translated by Adelina-Maria Mănăilescu / 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. 
