Even lovage is more expensive here. I won't even mention the excessive price ofthe rent, it's mind-boggling. The proverbial calm and quiet are long gone, there is chaos everywhere and soon there will be more cars than residents. Recovery and resilience, the new magic formula that will make a lot of big plans happen, will also make the subway happen. Those who won't have money for rent will be able to sleep on the subway. But let's stop all this complaining. We are very spoiled and everything goes smoothly here. We live in the five-star city.
(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. 
