Bloody old, dusty room and hell with people who trust real estate brokers. A handsome one, can't complain, he charmed me with it and got my money for something he is not. He did "the elevator" technique- a selling technique- and look at me, now I am the owner of some walls padded with books, coffee cups from everywhere and an impossible smog. Luckily it has a dock. I will make love with all sunsets there. The 256th day, the last day of the year. Yes, do not stare like that, in the future the days decrease and you live more. Oh look, it is signed under the coffee spot: Frusi-The Prophet.
(Translated by Roberta Ana-Maria Gulerez / 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.