Some people call me Madam Oregano. Friends know why. You come to my place, I'll tell you a prediction, sweetie, I'll kiss your contact lenses, the blue ones, to keep the cat on the rope. I nail them so well, whoever comes to me never leaves again. For example, I tie the people together and remove the devil from the man, love charms with apples. I also deal with sports in business, future clairvoyants, I bring back together couples. I work with the holy cup. I also closed the book because I never liked it.
(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. 
