After the Vârful cu Dor mountain, there is only white as far as the eye can see. Our boots and pants are knee-deep in snow, it's 11 o'clock and sunny, and a breakfast consisting of canned pâté has just been packed. After that pinnacle, it should be visible. After one pinnacle, another pinnacle. After one pinnacle, it's the pinnacle of it, everything is still white. Occasionally up to your thighs. The backpack with metal sticks sink in it with you. Bear tracks. It's 11 o'clock, black as far as the eye can see, and that's where we leave our bones. A small light at last. Actually two, the cabin and its reflection in the lake we have to go around.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Batog / 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. 
