It was at night, and a thick fog had settled over my eyes, so that I could no longer see my glass. As I moved along, bitingly, maintaining a precarious balance on all four limbs, I was following an imaginary ellipsoidal trajectory between the ditch and the axis of the road. At some point, I feel a hard, metallic object approaching the top of my head and hitting me hard. I look up and see red, yellow and green lights. Then, from a machine with blue and red lights, two little blue men approach me.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / 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. 
