the angel told the demon. Even those who are condemned have the right to hope. Even those who are fools can dream about being free. When faced with death we are all equal, but beyond the enemy lines of life we can still strive for redemption and forgiveness. This cloak of macabre cures my guilt. A secret buried deep inside this fleshy rot of my soul pushes me to dream about salvation. Look up and you will discover the real lie. We are all destined to fall. The bottom is the highest point we'll ever reach.
(Translated by Ruxandra Adriana Dodoiu / 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. 
