A pigeon pondering on a branch. I discover the film each time with enthusiasm and candor, a cathartic experience, a general reset that rebuilds me from the first digging of the foundation, a process sometimes slow, river, other times dramatic, shaking, to which I fall prey with a conscious unconsciousness, because I feel safe. Sometimes it takes me on sunny roads, sometimes it sneaks me, clandestinely, into dark alleys, but each time, like stem cells, it regenerates my soul.
(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. 
