Do you think God is more at home in Hebrew or Latin? Or maybe in Greek? Maybe he doesn't even need words, just matter. What would it be like to learn that dark matter holds the secret of secrets. And you are mixing cosmology and philosophy again, he says, while boiling the water in the kettle. Then he prepares my tea and asks me. Does all this matter? I mean if it matters to the two of us, to the common people. I don't answer him. The neighbour upstairs is having loud sex. A cuckoo can be heard outside.
(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. 
