Sometimes I'm here, sometimes I'm there. I go to visit the departed. I don't walk physically, because I don't know the way back, I walk with my mind. I remember them. One day I see my grandmother arguing with the rooster because I don't know what he did, another day I see my grandpa taking me to the beach and buying me cocoa powder candies even though my mother told him it was ruining my teeth. I'm home today and I feel like I'm there with them. When I miss them, I close my eyes and go beyond and talk to them. I think they miss me too.
(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. 
