The reporter starts the recorder. Mr. Director, how would you describe what you did here? I consider myself a trailblazer. I filmed 12 people who were on the border between worlds. I filmed their look of despair as they cling to this world, then the moment when the soul detaches from the body, and finally the silence that lasts until the body decays, are all magical moments that people appreciate enormously, even if they oppose me. I anticipate the next question. Yes, I will choose life in prison for the beauty of art.
(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. 
