I write crosses and sometimes I eat a letter. It happens often and that's why I'm quite sought after, because writing costs money and I charge by the letter. With the numbers it's more complicated. It doesn't count for me there. I've written an extra number many times and people said it was good. It's like saying happy birthday without asking you how old you are. They say it's a superstition, but I'm reassured by the fact that I don't get complaints directly from the beneficiary. I managed with the living and no dead body protested that I had crossed his reality.
(Translated by Oana Georgiana Minea / 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. 
