When Daniel got home, he took off his mitre, his engolpion, his omophorion, his epitrachelion, his sticharion and everything else and took a quick shower, overcome by anticipation. Naked as he was he sat in front of the mirror. After a few seconds he bent down to pull something out from under the bed.A black box tied with a gold string which revealed clothes,stiletto shoes, a lipstick and a make-up kit. He eagerly put the clothes on, carefully smeared his face, and, while admiring himself in the mirror, he thought, I wonder if this dress makes me look fat.
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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. 
