Where's Gelu, I'll croak him, see, 'cause he has my castle conquered, stuck his flag deep in its soul. That's what he has done to me. He would say to me: hey Mary, we'll tie the not anyway and be together come what may. I believed him as he'd say: let's go in the vineyards, drink some fine wine and play cards. We made love from dusk till dawn, 50 times or so, and then Gelu left me all alone. Serious woman as I am, having three more kids at home, wanna let my Gelu know, that the fourth comes in a row.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / 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. 
