He periodically had dreams in which he ran or tried to run, and sometimes, spontaneously, as if entering an anti-gravity bubble, he would tip over and float in weightlessness, unable to control it. He would wince, with a smile of déjà vu. He would prefer dreams in which he took off and detached himself from the ground; he would rather levitate because he did not initiate this gliding, he was carried. Eventually, however, he managed to fly and made the moment last. In the morning he had the same smile and his hands clasped on his chest in the shape of wings.
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
