Hair. For hair, press 1, black-2, brown-3. If you want to continue, press the asterisk symbol. Eyes. Blue, press 1, green-2, brown-3. If you want to continue, press the asterisk symbol. Breast augmentation. For big breasts, press 1, very big-2, enormous-3. If you want to continue, press the asterisk symbol. Your culinary choices. For moussaka, press 1, stuffed cabbage-2, aspic-3. If you want to continue, press the asterisk symbol. Your favourite positions. Missionary style, press 1, for sty..., beeep. You've reached 520 characters.
(Translated by Ana Maria Adriana Oprea / 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 March 2021, the group has 4.300 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
