I don't know if Lady Luck was around when I came into the world, but I do know that my father made sure that I carried the horse shoe he gave me when I was a kid. But Fortune was nothing more than this assiduous, day-to-day effort to build me moments of happiness. Until that fateful day, I avoided suffering with all my being. But He had to appear.With a missing horseshoe. Generously, I gave him my horseshoe. And gone he was, winged like Pegasus. He left me his saddle. I've been telling stories ever since.
(Translated by Alina-Mihaela Burciu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by prof. dr. Nadina Vișan / Edited 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 November 2022, the group has 9,580 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. 
