I was speeding. The airbags deployed at the moment of impact. My shoulder hurt a bit and I was scared. I got out and saw the body of a young man, lying a few meters away. I went over and checked him out. The young man was dead. I lit a cigarette with difficulty - the wind was blowing and it was starting to rain. Now, I just had to wait. I got back in the car and turned on the radio. Frank Sinatra,
My Way. I was feeling worse and worse, so I quickly took a pen and paper out of my pocket and wrote down: Grandpa's Paradox.
(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. 
