It was rumored in the silent world of shadows that they would not be alone in the universe. Some shadows had caught a glimpse of something beyond the play of llight and dark, and a parallel world didn't seem quite impossible. Eventually, the great minds had to admit that there was incontrovertible evidence that all shadows had a strange projection, an alter ego, in another world. The shadows named their projections humans and decided that direct contact with them was dangerous. For now, they're following them from time to time.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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 May 2023, the group has 11,260 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
