Petrică, has your cousin arrived from Dubai? So early? I'm not done with painting. Didn't he say he was coming in May? Damn woman. He will sleep in the big house and we will sleep in the summer kitchen. After she leaves, we sprinkle holy water around, because the last time the furniture has been creaking for a week. Petrica, but what kind of people brought her with her, because here's a bunch of oranges coming down to us in the yard. Did they only eat carrots? God be bless, hope they do not get ill. Go and kill three chickens. We make them well with some good soup.
(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. 
