When I woke up, it was dark. I reached for my phone. I couldn't find it. I tried to figure out where I was. One of my eyelids was twitching and my mouth was dry. I want water, I shouted, but no one answered. I got up and tried to find a lamp. I found it, but it didn't help much, because it was only then that I realized where I was. The room had no windows. It had been bricked up and the door was locked. I started sweating and crying. I was here again. Back into the dream. Wake me up, wake me up, please.
(Translated by Oana Ionescu / 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. 
