The black moon had had me poor. Anyway, I couldn't leave home by car, firstly because of Mercury retrograde, secondly because I had no gas. And anyway, you don't get gas when the Moon is rising, duh. I was praying for Aquarius to get out of the house of love so I could call Maricica. Well, so to speak, to call her, because Pluto conjuncts Venus, so any communication is made directly. That's also why I postponed the beating I have to give to Mircea, my wife's lover, because with such a Pluto, you're not allowed to be violent.
(Translated by Andreea-Daniela Vasilache / 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 July 2022, the group has 8,750 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. 
