Having a juxtaposed character and extreme copulative tendencies, Gelu was often confused with a conjunction. In addition that he had conjunctivitis, for somewhat political reasons. After drying his
lady-loves of their ideational core, milking their synapses of every piece of idea, no matter how rudimentary, Gelu would treat his head with fluocinolone. As one never knows what use it could have. He had charm or at least shawarma. Having a sick imagination, he would treat it daily with paracetamol, because well, how much fluocinolone can you use on your upper head in a lifetime?
(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. 
