I actually live in a suitcase. The road's now my life. I was on top of a pyramid in Mexico, on the Great Wall of China, inside the house of a Japanese fisherman. I stepped on the newly build stage in Matsuda and the long-running one in New York, in the spotlight and on the stairs of Sao Paolo's Opera, through the homeless who were in search for drugs. But the longest, most adventurous road is the one towards me. With the supersonic, submarine, with the scooter, any means of transportation is good one. I wonder how will it be when, in the final moment of life, I'll be reaching it.
(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. 
