He threw himself into the void, he threw himself, you hear people says, and women instinctively put their hands to their mouths as if the truth that came out was a terrible lie. But I filmed everything. I've been here since the first call to the police. The police ranked it as being also a suicidal case. A man, a woman, two children. Every day someone commits suicide. He will kill himself. I'm filming. Maybe by scrolling image by image I will understand. Today I am filming myself. I turned on the camera. I'm on edge. Nobody matters anymore. Nothing. I see the door. I open it.
(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. 
