I went to work happily. I gave flowers to all the girls. We had fun, we took photos, there was even some drinkables, although, you know how it is, we don't drink during the program, so, for a taste, a drop, it's allowed. One said some great jokes, too bad I didn't remember them. It was a bit crowded when pizza came, too many people, but we did it. At the end of the day, I realized that I work alone in the office and that I should never smoke my child's cigarettes again.
(Translated by Alexandra Cica / 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. 
