He had been the butler of the house for ten years. He calmly pushed the protocol cart into the service elevator, paying attention to the details of the perfectly arranged set. He slightly rotated the small Japanese vase, matching the floral arrangement to the viewer's angle. De Meyere loved freesias. He was the tenth of an old noble lineage with a tradition in the delicate services to the crown. He was going to be removed and send correspondence to Prague. He reached the floor and the door slid silently. John, I've known for three years. De Meyere pulled the trigger, smiling bitterly.
(Translated by Andreea Denisa Dinu / 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. 
