Next. Tell me, buddy, first option. Well, the Brunei sultan's son.
He-he. I'll pretend I didn't hear that. Something else. The
great-grandchild of queen Elizabeth? We're not on the same page. Oh, I got it, I want to be Elon Musk's child. I'm sorry, it's taken. Maybe if you had had a heart attack two days ago, I could've helped. Something else. Actually no, we're wasting time. Look. This is all I got. A Galapagos turtle, inuit, loan shark's son from Țăndărei or Cristi Borcea's bastard child. Hurry up.
(Translated by Daniela-Andreea Gugescu / 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. 
