We are the only apartment in the block which pays for 5 people at maintenance, although our family has only four members, two adults, a girl and a boy. When we travel, I pay 5 tickets and there is always a free place next to us. And when the little one started school, I filled two enrollment forms and bought double supplies. We were advised by all the specialists, but we could not convince him. I hope, however, that I do not pay for two weddings, one for the boy and one for his imaginary friend.
(Translated by Otilia Mocanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / 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 2021, the group has 6.650 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
