When he invited me to a physics lecture after our first coffee together, I thought he was joking. He wasn't. Same thing when he bought me a telescope on a summer day. Maybe that's not what you choose the love of your life after, but other things. But I chose him, because before I fell asleep, he'd tell me about galaxies and distant stars. He was like the Little Prince. He still is. We're together because I didn't have the heart to hurt him. To run away. I was also curious. So I chose to stay a little longer. And a little longer. A lifetime.
(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. 
