Outside there are 40®C. I get into the living room through the balcony window. Nor here is better, but at least there are 8 degrees colder. I am spinning for some time around the chandelier, and I get to sleep under the curtains. I have to rest because tonight we are playing kamikaze. Together we are flying and sound like MIGs. The winner should be able to get closer to the losers that are sleeping and to slap them. We are declared heroes, the ones that land and sting them. For some, this is the last flight. This is the game.
(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. 
