I knew I didn't need you, even though I desperately thought I did. You told me I am frozen, that you would break the ice castle where I have been hiding and I would fly to the Sun. I was the princess for an ice world, until you decided to destroy my dream. You saw yourself as the hero of my life, same as I did. Then you let me down. Fly, you said. You never had a thought that maybe I didn't know how? You told me I could do anything. Where are you? I am really cold. I did not fly, I crashed. To be able to fly you have to believe.
(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. 
