It's been 256 days since I opened the restaurant and I still haven't made a profit. I don't know if I will survive in this competitive market. I tried to promote the business on various television and internet stations. I put up big, bright ads to make the whole street shine. I hired gorgeous exotic dancers with appetizing shapes and vigour. Recently I have even allowed access to pets, but I fail to win the customers' hearts. Today I'm going to throw away the amandine soup and the beef caviar again.
(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 May 2022, the group has 8,350 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. 
