Floating through the darkness, he saw a sphere of light rising in his path as if from nowhere. He steered suddenly, avoiding the collision, then got lost in the cold depths of the night. He threw his space-time net over the clouds and waited. He felt it getting heavier. Billions of stars were nestling inside, laying their eggs, and just as many stars were releasing their sparkling milt to fertilize them, like bursts of light from which new generations of celestial bodies would be born again and again, in a cosmic latte bustling with life.
(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. 
