Every start is just art without st,read the kid on the last bottle of Zăganul beer. What a load of crap. Whose idea it was to glue this thing on here? If someone were to come and try to stop me, I would skin them alive and they still wouldn't be in as much pain as I'm in now. I'm standing on a footbridge, there's a speeding train passing underneath me. I throw. The bottle smashes against the roof of the red carriage. If I jump I'm sure no one would notice. A new bottle. The metal cork swirled in the air, but landed after the body.
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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.
