The moment you put the ring on my finger, I knew I'd be your copilot on a lifelong odyssey. So high I floated, that I could see the world from interstellar space. Our ship broke down at times, but never so badly that we left or abandoned it. People smiled when they saw us together, calling us aliens. Then you really did go off to a starship far out in the universe. You send me a sign from times to times, I don't know how to decode it, but I don't force fate. I'll see you again someday.
(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. 
