The footman parked the limousine from which he set foot on the red carpet, and his last suspicion vanished when seeing the body in the trunk. M, what inspires you when you make masterpieces that seem so real and especially why don't you work with the same actors twice? It would be impossible for me; the line between fiction and reality is invisible, he said with his hand over his heart, while he stroked the fabric of the tuxedo under which only he could guess the wooden handle of the scalpel. He was smiling as if the blood had already dried.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
