Unending summer holidays. Drinking soda in the mine yard. A 1st of June with with a campfire and gift packages from the National Company of Coal. Gheorghe Hagi. The World Championship of 1998. Dan Petrescu's goal against England. My brother's upright piano brushing against the co-op's stairs. Fearlessly climbing through cherry trees. Splashing through the Jiu. Appendectomy. Adolescence. Mihaela, love at first sight. The first few lines. Put the puzzle pieces together.
(temă în parteneriat cu
Ideo Ideis, 2022)
(Translated by Constantin Istrate / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 August 2022, the group has 9,000 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. 
