There's a meeting first thing in the morning. The boss slams a bottle in front of us. The shower gel you have to advertise the hell out of. So that people will fall in love with its scent and texture. Be seduced by the fancy design. Take it with them on flights and luxury cruises. You ought to make this shower gel the hottest topic and a vanity incentive. Boss, do they actually want advertising for the third installment of
50 Shades of Gray? Stop talking nonsense, this is
50 Shades of Gelu', the first erotic shower gel entering the Romanian market. Good luck.
(Translated by Marta Fulga / 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. 
