Man, this one is a jerk. Does he really not understand what I want? I sacrificed myself at that teambuilding and danced only with him that whole night. What did I get from this? A kiss on the cheek goodnight. I asked him out for a cigarette and would you guess what he told me? He loves his wife. That old hag? She just added more years to her age. She's past her 30s. Apparently, she's the mother of his children.So what, isn't Bobby the father of my children? Future children, it's true. Do I have to love him? All right, I've sent him my post-surgery picture. Until the subject matter changes, Mișu will be a case solved.
(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. 
