A world in which all of a sudden, the space and time performed completely wrong. A world in which everything was fated to distort. I stepped yesterday in this world, when you didn't look at me with the same eye, when the back of my hand was touching you, but our grip felt twisted. Maybe in this ordinary yesterday you decided to forget about us and step on another world in which we don't even exist. Today I'm willingly throwing myself into everything that existed and happened the day before yesterday. To reach a new surface. Be that as it may.
(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. 
