Who checked on the patient in room 3? Why nobody? Then who gave him the pills for today? Aren't you on duty today? No nurse will enter to check on this patient because he is flirting with you. In case you forgot where you worked, this is the psychiatric hospital. And we've had lots of
lover-boys. You might be afraid that he is convincing enough. Someone call for Petrică, the security man. How did it go? Did you make him take the medication? I'm sorry for saying this, but when are you free to go, I'd like to take you to my place.
(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / 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. 
