A, to B: I saw poor Puiu, getting aut of the ambulance. I hope he's well now. B, to C: This Puiu only travels by taxi, he doesn't like the tram. C, to D: B told me that Puiu bought a Logan. He really is a jerk. He has money for a small car, but he hasn't paid the maintenance for six months. D, to E: Let me tell you a bomb news: that poor Puiu bought a Mercedes. God, the world turned upside down. E, to F: since these people came to power, stupid Puiu changed three cars. Down with the corruption, down with the mafia.
(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. 
