I've been working here for 37 years. Full time. I've never missed one measly day. It's all fun and games, but we don't leave the premises, alright? I've covered everything I could in dirt with my nails. I've buried everything I did and didn't want. I've cried harder than a paid mourner, always. My head is full of graves. And my soul is full of crosses. Ehhh, I've even crucified myself once. Well, I've also been resurrected a few times. There's one more love I have to put in the ground and there, I'll be the most beautiful walking tomb. I'm waiting for fresh flowers. And my pension.
(Translated by Diana Mîndruță-Tănăsescu / 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 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. 
