For whom the bells tolls, Mitică? I have no idea, mom, just ask Tache since he's the boss when it comes to souls. The happy funeral folks came here last week. This week, the Terminus Paradis folks came. It's already been 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days since Mr. Lăzărescu's death, and poor Miss Christina didn't even live until this Christmas. Oh no, dear, so many good people die and get here, on the bone's road. Oh, dear, watch out and don't spill that water. It's November, the last dance.
(Translated by Liliana Popescu / 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. 
