Call me when you get off the plane, said Father Agheasmie, putting down his suitcase. The priestess nodded worriedly. What if the plane crashes? Nothing will happen, he replied. God's everywhere. He smiled and made a cross. Come on, hurry to check in. The woman hesitated. In a moment she picked up her bag and kissed the man on the cheek. She walked away. After a few steps she stopped and turned around. We're going to have a baby, she shouted just as a plane started its engines. What? asked the priest. She waved her hand.
(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. 
