I'm out of bed but my vision is
blurry. I make a dash for work as I have a
meeting scheduled for half past nine. Hardly do I make myself a
latte or grab a bite of an
energy bar that we have an
end of a year survey scheduled that is going to last for an hour or so. A 15-minute
stretching break during which I check my mails and provide a
response to a
query, followed by a
kick-up call for a new project. The day goes on with a quick
lunch, more of a
snack, after which I have my second coffee while taking someone through a quick training. I finish typing a document - which I'm also sending though it was due the next day -, I log out and
bye..
(Translated by Elena Florea / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 March 2022, the group has 8,050 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. 
