Whenever I go to the Capital I have my own place in the Old Town, where I really have to go. There's the kingdom of books that spans two floors. The lower basement level attracts me the most. That's where I find old books, old magazines, at very affordable prices. I sneak through the shelves hunting for books. That's all I need to be happy. With a good book in hand, happiness has my face. Yes, happiness is a state of mind that everyone experiences differently. This is enough for me.
(Translated by Andreea Grințescu / 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 April 2022, the group has 8,175 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. 
