Since his Sonia died, he had made a ritual of walking in the park. The bench by the Princess Tree awaited her silence in serenity. Shuffling his weary legs, never grumbling, he pushed back and, straight as a stalk, turned his eyes after the sun. From there Sonia laughed at him. Today it's raining. The body stiffened on a bench drives away passers-by with empty hearts and sharp thoughts. A rainbow bridges heaven and earth. Soul ascends smiling. Flower and Sun reunite, in tango yellow.
(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. 
