Once upon a time there was a sky which the suns endowed with many stars, and one of them kept its corners wide as the arms waiting for a hug or which want to at least embrace the whole universe. Looking into the depths of the ocean, the star fell in love with a starfish. He plunged from above to be consumed by its fate's grasp because, unfortunately, only in death could the star fulfill its love. Their love had only lasted a star fall. On the ocean's bed two stars are sharing a long embrace; a starfish and a fallen star.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
