I confess, I use spells so that everything I write becomes real. Do you want to know how? Take 30 mint leaves and rub them together with the garlic squasher until oil comes out. A few drops are enough. Rip off a rose petal (has to be white) and gather up the drops in it. Then, carefully, very carefully, hold the petal over your keyboard while whispering (faintly, so that no one else will hear you): May the facebook love me / as mites love tea. Three times. Repeat once every 10 days. You can't believe it? Watch how many
likes I get on this post.
(Translated by Constantin Istrate / 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. 
