Five starfish, that's what I want. Medium rare. And tell the chef to finely dice an onion, three cloves of garlic and pepper. He should fry them in a pan with butter, it must be butter. Is this all? the voice asked bored. Yes, actually no. I also want polenta made with milk and butter. Is this all? Yes. The guard walked away from the cell with life-sentenced prisoners when he heard: Boss, there's something else. What? I would also like mulled wine with cinnamon, golden currant, allspice and apple slices. Ok. Noted.
(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. 
