The bedtime story, with its ever-delayed ending, that slowly and gently opened the gates of the dream, the long walks through the city, with true and serious answers, spoken in the warmest and most patient tone in the world, to the endless series of whys born in the mind that wanted to know everything from someone who knew everything (otherwise how could he understand what the swallows say to each other when they nest under the eaves and the cranes when they leave) - they all told me that I was his sun and he the splendid flower that swirls after me.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
