Let's cut to the chase, it's obvious that it's right here on earth where we fully atone for the life we're living, this is where we pay for what we've done, not in some ideal heaven or a hell à la Dante but here, while we still feel, while the past failures, current mistakes and future uncertainties still weigh on us, here, along the money, bills, unfulfilled romances and dreams, the demons exist only within us, so do the angels, a roll of the dice during a shell game with the destiny, a game played on the board of our lives.
(Translated by Alin Sescu / 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. 
