This is a rare piece, Monsignor. Don Pappagallo gazed in admiration at the object on the velvet display stand. He raises an eyebrow. Still, isn't it too expensive? Alas, my monsignor, can you say such a thing? This clasp belonged to Bonaparte himself. Unfortunately, all that remains of his trousers is this piece of cloth, which has been transformed into a talisman cockade, later used by Gloria when she crossed the mountains. Which Gloria, Mr. Moscarian? The one in sic transit Gloria mundi.
(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. 
