As soon as I finished reading my astral predictions on my phone, I called the man I had recently met on the internet. I told him that, unfortunately, I couldn't see him today because the stars made it clear that it was not a good day for romantic encounters. Well, they told me that I should insist on dating the woman I love. So, please, allow me to insist, he said in an almost pleading tone. Because we couldn't reach a common ground, we stepped back. We're both Cancer.
(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. 
