We moved the desk, fridge, drinks, stereo and speakers in here, we even made atmosphere with some cigars from Jamaica. Our short stories turned out to be some mini masterpieces, no need to be modest here. We got everything in a maximum of 500 characters: action, mystery, horror, drama, comedy and romance. I sent them to Netflix, HBO, even Disney. Supposedly,they'll contact me. But it's okay, I can sell them to the networks as news. Or I'll find a group on Facebook,I'llsuggest them to create a fictional Real Writers Union and maybe they'll elect me president.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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. 
