The factory I worked for even before the Revolution shut down. I had to find another job. It was hard because almost all factories were closing down. This is how I ended up becoming a gravedigger at the cemetery, and this is all because I had a neighbour who put in a good word for me. In the beginning, it was difficult, but I got used to it now. The wage is pretty good, and enough money escapes the deep pockets. One day I met an old colleague and, after having discussed various things, I asked him what he was doing in the cemetery. Well, I'm here with my father; I brought him to get used to the atmosphere.
(Translated by Camelia Diaconu / 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. 
