It came on a Thursday. He looked like the scriptures. Deep-set face, deep-set eyes, other-worldly gaze. He was worried and only his manners kept him from putting his hands on his head. God, where did you send me? The answer he received in his earpiece was, of course, satisfactory. For he stepped out of the shuttle saying: three days I shall not die, though only by death shall I be saved. Applause, cheers, the crowd in delirium; the father's son came down among us. It didn't last long and they killed him. He was all they could not bear. He was perfect.
(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. 
