20.01.2022

Hello. Good day, I wish to speak with Mr. Iulian Sîrbu. I heard that you were thinking of leaving the Real Fictions group because of me. I called you to say that it was no mockery involved, it was just a joke. I thought you would take it as a challenge. Eh, maybe I didn't express myself as I should've. I hope you'll think about it and don't take a rushed decision. Hello. Do you hear me? What the hell? This phone, doesn't even have a wire. Where is that alien rambling when you need him?

(Translated by Ioana Negrea / 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 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.

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