On the alley with an
old-fashioned air in the sweet square of Iasi the building where once all the local writers and artists used to gather for a chat with the most famous and respected antiquarian of the city still stands witness. Lăpușneanu was once his kingdom where the music of the phonograph resounded, which the antiquarian used to play in the street to the delight of
passers-by. As soon as you turned from the Foundation onto the small boulevard, an involuntary smile would fill your face. I still give myself a randevú in memory of the bookish atmosphere.
(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. 
