When we are all called to receive divine penance. Surely the fictionalists will have a separate room and their writings will be placed on thalers. Certainly the most heartfelt will hang, not the heaviest. The best ones don't even exist. It's just an illusion. Neither will the number of likes count, nor the laced comments. Nor the real name, or the dominant personality. That we will be sent to hell or heaven, naked, or as earth, or reincarnated as spirits with big bellies and mean little mouths. God is neither.
(Translated by Andreea-Daniela Vasilache / 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. 
