I'd had time to make plans after plans, to weave colorful dreams in the frog-smelling cesspool where I imagined I was born. Sometimes I heard the flutter of wings through the leeches that disturbed my sleep. And I'd add another dream. That day I learned what it meant to be day, light and sun. I opened my numb wings and sprang up singing. I'll see the world, I'll roam the earth and sky, I'll fly everywhere, I'll dance and I'll share joy for many years, to everyone. My name is Efemerid Rusalie.
(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. 
