Outside, the sun was at its zenith. I was closing all the doors. The hallway was getting pitch black. I was walking from the bathroom to my room, holding in front of my eyes a double-page of Pif, with drawings of galaxies, dusted by the publisher with some phosphorescent powder. I imagined myself in a space shuttle. I was going vroom vroom. Over many seasons, the page lost its mind seeing Emmanuelle. Volumes one and two. And after another ten or so equinoxes, In Praise of the Stepmother shattered all the past and threw it into nothingness.
(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. 
