Luggage? Check. Ticket? Check. Neck pillow? Check. Sunglasses? Check. It was the last flight to Miami. She planned that holiday one year ago. She liked being organised, she would never leave anything to chance. Immediately after take-off she ordered a glass of champagne and closed her eyes. Beside her a baby started to cry so much that she got very angry. She was so bothered that she asked the cabin crew to change her seat. Somebody close his mouth. I just can't. But ma'am, it's yours. A parachute please.
(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. 
