I had become a housekeeper to an English baron. Not an ounce of English in my head, cause I enjoyed learning just as much as the English enjoy holding an umbrella all day long. Gelu, pool the shits! said the baron one evening.
Uh-oh. "What did these people even put in the job description? I told myself while reaching for my fly. Gelu, pool the shits! he repeated. I no pool the shits cause father finds out and gives me shits too! I answered. He stood up and showed me how to close the curtains. We both laughed.
We'll get there someday. He said. That must mean good night. How nice.
(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. 
