I was away from home to solve a complicated case. I couldn't wait to get back, I was sick of hotels and motels. When I walked into the living room, I saw a body lying on the floor. In the hallway leading to the bedroom, I saw some shadows. I threw myself on the floor and pulled out my gun. Hands up, let me see your faces, I shouted. Who the hell are you? Cut, said a low voice. Three shady guys stepped out of darkness. The penny dropped when I saw the owner's son, a directing student. I was going to clear it with the landlady.
(Translated by Cristina Șuică / 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 November 2021, the group has 7.500 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. 
