Dear Miss Diary, you're obviously a woman since you listen to so much and make no attempt at providing solutions. Anyway, what I've been meaning to say is: the 256
th day counting from today is the 10
th of December. During the Christmas fasting (I'm not doing it), after Saint Nicholas (ate already), during the Christmas shopping season (ok, I buy books, order cakes and cabbage rolls), the month of Sagittarius (so not me). One more day and it would be 9 months since my birthday, the right time to give birth to a child conceived through birthday sex. One more month and it would be Saint John. Happy name day to all Johns and give free drinks. Ok, bye.
(Translated by Diana Pașcanu / 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. 
