Hey, are there more? Don't want it to happen like it did with the luck and have arguments 'bout one having been at work, others having received a dozen, nò, stuff like that. There are more, boss. That's it, shit happens, what can we do. Peter, what are you talking about, give me the notebook, let me see. Elijah von Ștrimfu, one piece shadow. John von Oaie, one, Gelu von Cirișca from the end of the village, fifty. Fifty? But what are we doing here, Peter? I said one each, to have enough for everyone. And what's with these three under the counter? Well, Peter dear, nem sobod.
(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. 
