Dude, we can't even do this much by ourselves? Those foreigners still have to show up and take our money. They're full of themselves, these foreign artists. What? Are we left only with the uneducated? Why don't you promote valuable people from the political party, man? We live freely and not everyone uses connections, right? And why can't this guy speak plainly, 50 shades of gray of Gelu? Oh, this is nothing, boss. There's 100 at Glad and 150 at Menumorout. This new 1,500 Ron bill costs more than it is worth.
(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. 
