Are you writing again? You're taking this group too seriously. Is it bothering you? No, but you are wasting your time and not gaining anything from it. But I'm not writing for money. I'm not talking about money. You can't make money out of writing. I'm talking about something else, something tangible, a kitchen aid, a hand mixer, a Teflon pan, or at least a vacation in a five-star resort, something like that. But look how many hearts this story got. This is not a story. In a story, there has to be something happening. This is only a stream of metaphors. You're so insensitive .
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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. 
