Rozi puckered her lips, winked in the mirror after posting a selfie of her new look on Insta. She said to herself: I'm slim, I'm beautiful, I'm smart, I have degrees. What's missing? She thought about it and concluded that there would be something else, an academy. Yes. A coaching academy. How about teaching these girls how to succeed in life. He told daddy, the Red Emperor, that starting tomorrow she needed a professional film studio and a red dress with feathers and sequins on the bust. He stomped her foot. Tomorrow, definitely.
(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. 
