Right before the Big Bang, when nothingness was all you could see through the undiscovered darkness, since the primordial sneeze didn't yet happen and no one dared to say a word. But there was also a piercing silence over the vast void that made the nothingness vibrate so much that the emptinesses merged into one another, creating a cosmogonical mush, so bizarre that you couldn't help but doubt its existence. Suddenly, an old man created himself and started to whistle
light.
(Translated by Bianca Ioana Prisecaru / 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. 
