The end of the play caught me in her dressing room. I was taking too much time changing the bathroom siphon. When he opened the door, the audience roared into the booth: I-ri-na, I-ri-na. Won't you go to receive the standing ovation, madam? Fuck them, I've gone three times already. Lock the door. I locked it. She took off her stage costume. It wasn't even hard: she performed the last act almost naked. Do to me what you did to Elena. Fuckin' Elena. After all I installed her boiler for free and she still brags about her adventures in the theatre.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / 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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
