I am feeling sick. I feel like throwing up. I can not do this anymore. Stop. I've had enough. You don't understand that I can't do it anymore. I can't take it anymore. Ah, it hurts. Let me go. I do not want anything else. I give up. I didn't think it was so painful. I love it, but you take it too far. I have my lusts that you have challenged. I feel like I'm exploding. Leave me at least one hole in the belt. This is how Marcela lamented during the initiation ritual in the Gourmet Club, a secret club for satisfying culinary cravings, only in huge quantities.
(Translated by Andreea-Alexandra Șerbănescu / 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. 
