Every single day I find three cigarettes in the mailbox. Someone, I have no idea who, has something with me. Surely he knows I hate tobacco. My own smoking friends avoid visiting. I send my mother to the balcony if she wants to light a cigarette; however, the smell seeps under the door and goes into the walls, into my closets, into my skin, into my hair. I clean after her for a week to get rid of the smell. For three months I kept finding cigarettes in the mailbox. Even today I don't know who put them there. I am now addicted to Dunhill.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
