The day had come, and the road seemed endless. I even got lost a few times in the winding little streets. I felt shadows lurking around me at every corner, and under their eyes I breathed like an anemic. It was as if I was dying and coming back to life without my will. I finally arrived. The priestess asked me to sit in a circle, then the procession began. We were all holding hands. The energy was building in our thighs, and we were caught up in an ecstatic dance. We were the same with our breath and movement. Uncontrolled movement and everyone saying altogether OM. OM Shanti, OM.
(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. 
