You know what, fuck your group.You want me to be creative, but you give me all this weird stuff. Writing stories about what could happen after midnight was fun.Enigmatic, sinister, even gloomy. I've written about the pier, the beyond and other crap, but not with much pleasure. Now, though, it's really crossed the line. Who chooses these themes? You don't think at all of those who write, who may not know all that. I've heard of OMG, LOL, even FML and SMD, but what the hell is UFO?
(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. 
