I moved into a castle

For my wife's photo session, she's an addicted blogger. I wanted to show off and now I'm completely broke. Until I get paid, I will beg for small change in front of the grocery store and we will eat likes and keep ourselves warm with cute little hearts. But my lady wants us to keep up appearances. So I grab my phone and start writing next to a Cupid fountain: alcoves, Pompadour, crinolines, Lui Catorz. (To be read: darn you, social media. You've made me lose my mind, I want it back. Absurde, n'est ce pas?) A slice of Romanian sausage, one of my wife's pictures for a slice of Romanian sausage. Lefter Penniless Popescu.


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 October 2021, the group has 7.275 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 Ficțiuni Reale.