What do you mean you fear both the daylight and the darkness? You don't want to see anybody, not even your folks, nor others, you would only keep your eyes on that one. Are you dizzy, did you fall apart? So what if you are in love? You cannot deny your nature for a honky dove, you are a Chiroptera, not a pigeon. We are predators, the dominant species and perfectly integrated. Lilian, pull yourself together! Go and court her, dance with her if you must, just eat her heart and wake up. After that you will be fine, our race of lunatics is strong.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
