When I go out to pick up girls, I suit up. I drive a Ferrari so it's not hard to go home with somebody. I promise to take them on holidays to exotic places and we don't have sex until they make marshmallows. They find it strange but I'm very persuasive, believe me. 267 women have come and gone and none have succeeded, even with my grandma's recipe as a guide. I sent them home before I taste any of that crap. When the marshmallow's come out the oven, I don't want to long for my childhood anymore.
(Translated by Cristina Ioana Bontea / 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. 
