He shaved his beard behind a chestnut tree. This is unbelievable: Sică Pișpirică is old enough to shave. We greeted each other as two old friends. I didn't give him the usual banknote this time, but we went by the Shawarma place. He thanked me and put the hot bag inside the hoodie's pocket. We walked around the lake one more time. I found them both on the edge of the channel. Sică was nibbling pieces of the thin slice of bread and fries, while Lăbuș was eating the slices of meat.
(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / 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. 
