Let this night also pass somehow without great and cosmic pain and let me no longer hear how the walls are humming and cracking like the ice when I went to ice fishing, to no longer hear how the armchairs and the carpets are gossiping about me, to no longer see how the doors and the windows raise their foothills and take off, while I have nowhere to go out. Let the morning come so that I can hop on the orange butterfly that has been waiting for me for three days and not turn into a caterpillar, please, dear butterfly, wait for me too, let's cross the river.
(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. 
