Name: Fane Gravedigger. Age: 45 years old. Location: Bellu. Looking for: hmm, I have to choose between women and men, okay, women, women. Okaay, moving on. Studies: the school of life. And of death, to make a joke, 'cause it's good to stand out through a sense of humour. Alcohol and tabaco: daily. Hobbies: digging, walking in alleyways under moonlight, Cioran, E.A. Poe, Tales from the Cryptkeeper. Job: undertaker. Apply. There, I was completely honest. I hope it'll bring me luck, God willing I'll find myself a normal woman.
(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. 
