Brethren, it took a thousand years, but we made it. We have reunited Romania's population, we are once more
twenty-three millions of people. The gnomes may say that the doctors are brought from Eritrea, the IT people from India, fertile women from Bantustan, and the men from the crescent. Yes, but we have romanized them, they sing doinas, they eat stuffed cabbage rolls, drink plum brandy, and they use pure Romanian swearing words. Now we can focus on the remainings: the formations of a government, the pandemic, schools, highways. Oh, and hospitals, because the one built by those two crazy women a thousand years ago are starting to go downhill.
(Translated by Zahra Kazemi / 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. 
