There are times in life when you miss someone so much that you want to pull them out of your dream so you can hug them. You wake up, see that they're not next to you and start swearing that you can't fall back asleep to hug them again. It's that moment when you begin to truly believe that they are up there beyond the clouds and the desire to be abducted by a UFO, to take you to them, increases in direct proportion to the pounding of your yearning heart. You want to be an alien too, to become just a shadow of a human. I do.
(Translated by Florina Șamata / 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 February 2023, the group has 10,500 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. 
