I can turn back time and work only when I feel like it. I'm in a different league from all those working just for a stipend. I do what I want. I don't even have to show up on holidays. Have a look! With the turquoise sea and the deserted beach that I can see from my window, why would I crowd up with some tourists? There's no point to it. I'd rather sit and read the whole day. Well, not today. Next week I turn 28 and I have to go look for a cool dress for the party. I hope I don't forget to save this doc before I go.
(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. 
