When I met him he was living on another lands, with pieces of soul scattered through different countries. He had a life on each side of the world. We sat next to each other on the plane and during some turbulence, when he saw that I was scared, he took me by the hand. I found so much peace in his palm. 'Don't be afraid', he said while smiling. Life is a comedy show. Divine, if you'd like. He vanished in the crowd when we landed. I searched for him for many years. We met someday by accident. The waiting was gone. I stepped in paradise.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
