This one is capable of cooking rice in fifty completely different ways. I admit, Costeluș loved me in all the possible ways, places, positions and holes. But Gelu - Gelu cooked for me a fish on a spinach bed with green onions, sprinkled with cheddar cheese and covered with puff pastry. He called it a stuffed fish pie. I died and I was resurrected with every bite, I don't know what day it is, if I am coming or going. Who needs love or sexual fantasies? Take me to your place and do to me what you will, Gelu.
(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. 
