The Universe has never succeeded in making us meet. He was my colleague from afar, with whom I was talking almost every day. Although we were telling each other important stuff, we were planning things directly linked to our development as a state entity. And we both felt an enormous amount of joy when we spoke and heard one another. We always promised each other that we'll meet and drink and talk. We gladly stand by one another and we sent ourselves holiday presents. One frosty morning he didn't pick up the phone. It was.
(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. 
