Ceaușescu gave a keynote speech. It turns out that the great achievements of the Party are unparalleled. We were playing, we had to say the names of songs, singers, and others. Someone was muttering the alphabet in his mind, and when I said stop, he was saying the letter he had reached. That's what you had to say, for example, a band or a singer. Angela Similea, Mirabela Dauer, Mihai Constantinescu or Corina Chiriac. They stopped at L. I said, Led Zeppelin. They all looked at me disapprovingly. It is not allowed with invented names.
(Translated by Georgiana Carmen Rădulescu / 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. 
