I wanted so much to know what comes after The Day After, I had read about it, I had listened to testimonies, I had even learned some astrology. Until I had a dream. There was a big war going on in the sky, human souls at stake. A scary escalator was parting heaven and hell. A Nephilim beckoned me to come up. I looked around, there was nothing familiar, I could see the light of life up and the torment of hell down. I hesitated to take the last step. I wanted to turn back, but the curtain had already been drawn across Earth.
(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. 
