What happens to snails that love each other? I think if we look carefully through the grass after a summer storm, we see her carrying boxes of personal belongings on top of her head and slowly hurrying to move in with him. He, tactfully, is deep in his house and struggles to clear cubbies for her things. Snails are moving hard. That's why we find empty shells. That's how they also look down on us as we move from one to the other and leave the empty shells behind without ever turning back. Maybe just with the thought.
(Translated by Alin-Marian Mărgescu / 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. 
