For a year I've been wandering aimlessly searching for my other half. I've seen a lot of countries, crossed several seas and met a lot of people. I haven't found true love anywhere. One day I've checked myself into a cabin on the mountaintops. In the evening we've gathered around the chimney for a glass to drink. I've met an exceptional man with an extraordinary life story. We've chatted all night long, near the fire. In the morning I've found out that he was living in my city, on my street, in my building, on the first floor.
(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. 
