War criminal, now repairing gadgets from biodegradable batteries to state-of-the-art microchips. During the war, I was a guard at a Communist camp where milk and honey flowed through the omnipotent loudspeaker. You could read the time or thoughts in the bare skin of the inmates, everything was in plain sight. I always had a talent for drawing, so I used to draw them during breaks. I filled what my curator titled this year at the Paris exhibition, a Saga, eclipses and anatomies of the cosmic.
(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.
