After John Locke and Descartes, Gelu went into exile in Amsterdam. Temporarily. Not out of a philosophic impulse, but, like the other two, attracted by the tolerance of the place. He came back with girls for prostitution. Gelu is from the Garden of the Mother of God, the place where the Romans learned vulgar Latin. He is a free Dacian. At home, he is a moralist. In exile, he is a playboy. He likes weed and easy women. With a heart divided between libertinism and traditional values, Gelu has become a shadow. None not believing in a social contract.
(Translated by Mălina Ioana Butaru / 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. 
