I started my tour of the salons. Patients behave like crazy, they don't even pay attention to me. I control myself in my chest pocket. Yes, the pen is in place. I put my hand in my right pocket and take out the notebook. I'll write them all down and tell you, Mr. Professor, I'm threatening the recalcitrant patients. The nurse enters the living room and tells me: Mr. Iulian, and you took the doctor's robe. Please put it back and go to bed. I comply immediately. I'm just the best patient.
(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. 
