I read the first lines of the message. Then I go up to my room fearfully, slam the door closed and read atremble, Beware. We have a video of you in your house's attic while you were, and here I couldn't make out the text, so I opened the clip. I can't tell you what I was doing, but I swear I was giving a new meaning to the term onanism. I gulped and read on the message,
Should you fail to send us a thousand dollars we'll forward this video to your friends and family. In that moment I remembered I am in a monastery and I don't have a ding-a-ling.
(Translated by Ioana Ștefan / 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. 
