I'm nervous; I have a date with my guy at the Dead Moggie pub. There is hot water and I'm washing myself with the soap made after grandma Varvara's recipe. I'm discretely puffing some Diesel Chanel on, I put on my ripped jeans and the
topless t-shirt. In the yard, there was a small scale carriage waiting for me - six handsome tortoises, all one shell, beautiful above all, harnessed to a convertible wheelbarrow taken in instalments from Lidl. If there gonna be rain, I have the bin bag that perfectly covers the inside of the limo. My guy is rich - he has 5 cherry trees and three six packs of oil.
(Translated by Oana-Roxana Dicilea / 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. 
