He texted saying he's a
part-time poet and a manele singer on weekends; that he is called Gelu the Rebel because he doesn't read the water meters; that he regrets not having eaten everything from his plate when he was a child and that's why his cock is small; that I would have been his soulmate if I had had bigger tits. I got mad. Because he put too many commas. Especially where I would have put an end. The comma leaves me a shade of hope, he wrote. Even with 50 shades, my tits still won't grow bigger, I said. He replied that the commas were for himself.
(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. 
