The road is difficult, the trail is getting more abrupt, I am trying to stop my lungs spasms, rocks are rolling behind, regrets, love stories, silence, words, but they told me to not look back and my willpower is boiling through my veins, my eyes are shining, my lips dry, I have one more step to stick the flag, to scream freedom but it's not because I can't run away from me, so I stay well behaved, me, a piece of meat and a heart, and the clear sky which is letting me down more and more abruptly, in a last chance to catch the rising.
(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. 
