There is a shorter, better way, that will take you closer to the Moon, I told him. There are clouds too, fluffier, with strings, sometimes taller, sometimes shorter. You can get on them, I never heard about a fallen cloud. You also have hot air balloons, those fly calmly, they take you over the mountains, before you have military jet planes, with props, there are plenty. Believe me, it's much easier. But if not, I am asking you, do how you consider, how you want, I am asking you, begging you. Do it in a way that it won't be your last flight.
(Translated by Maria Cătălina Moisescu / 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. 
