I can frankly say this is the best job I've ever had. My colleagues, despite being dead, are nice. There's no stress, no boss to bully us, no plans that seem ripped out of fantasy and no absurd deadlines. The cemetery's on the hill, above the city, and at nighttime it's nice to see the lights going off and on down the hill. Still, it seems my leisure days are kinda over. I'm anxious since I have been informed I will start working from home.
(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. 
