it's not visible, but it's stronger than a concrete fence. You, with your ridiculous idealism. I admit, I once praised your kindness, now I despise you. You're so stupidly good. You take food out of your children's mouths and feed it to strangers. When they made you director and offered you that big salary, you turned it down. You're bragging about making this shithole? Look over the fence at Viorel's villa. I'm moving in with him tomorrow. It's been 40 days since his wife died. Don't worry, we've been fucking since the day we moved here.
(Translated by Andreea Grințescu / 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 December 2021, the group has 7.750 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. 
