Each one of us has his own fears. I'm afraid of the night. Not of the darkness, but rather of the silence. Of the deafening noise of the clock chopping the hours finely. Of the almost empty bottle that keeps, like an experienced woman, the most exciting parts unexposed. Making you desire her. Right then. Straight away. All of it. But most of all I am afraid of the white piece of paper. Of her milky mist in which all the demons of shame and guilt and regret are hiding. And even worse than that it's the fact that I started to be afraid of that fear.
(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. 
