There are stories that cannot simply be told. And that's not because there might be something hidden in them, but because that they exclusively belong to one's being and can't be expressed, maybe if they're transformed into poetry. I'm writing here as if in a journal, only to remember years from now this evening of April 1st. 20 years ago, I couldn't even begin to imagine that there will be a time in my life in which everything I'd ever wished for would come true, all precisely as a Swiss watch. I would have never believed that. But today, there's no never anymore.
(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.
