He had never broken the laws of the Universe, he was just following the trajectory that had been dictated to him. At one point, a meteor hit him at the speed of light and knocked him out of orbit. For a while, he drifted aimlessly. Then he spotted a small light millions of years away. Though it was far away, it kept him company in infinite darkness. Sometimes he made calculations to find out how long it would be before he entered its atmosphere. It took a while, and when he arrived he found only stardust.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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. 
