Come, give me your hand so I can tell your fortune, handsome. Oh my, but you are a special man. As a child you were talented, at Christmas you used to sing
The Star is Rising; during the time of Ceașcă you should have gone to
The Star with no Name. You're thinking of the long road, it's a dangerous plan; if you get there, you'll have your star on a high street. If you stay here and still take care of the sheep, you'll have a football club and 5-star hotels. Hey, don't go to the army; I see on your shoulders 4 stars and a wife Steluța, who would only play with -give a few lei and I'll tell you with what.
(Translated by Adrian-George Ilinca / 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. 
