The days of this festival are about the same. If I'm not tormented by insomnia, the morning gives me the certainty that I'm living my dolce vita and that people can only be beautiful and nothing else. A bizarre idea, reeking of vulnerability, is attracting little evidence of cruelty from all sides. The certainties of the morning waver and disappear around the afternoon, when I already know I live in Dogville. I activate my defence shields which prove to be useless and the evening comes unabated with its own certainty: we are born assassins.
(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. 
