We were together since His first thought. That's how the Universe was created and continued to exist, because we've found each other every time. Two apparently stray particles that can move through every black hole in order to meet again. Together we've birthed suns, constellations, matter and anti-matter, we were stars that died together, looking at one another from thousands of light years apart, space dust. Now we're standing on the pavement's edge and the two regular centimetres between us burn like the salt sprinkled over an open wound. Here and now it's never.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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 June 2023, the group has 11,430 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. 
