Boss, it can't go on like this, add something to my wage. Yo lad, if it doesn't suit you, there's the door. Sanda, he shouted to the secretary, hear what this husband of yours is saying. Boss, don't mind him \'cuz he read the horoscope and apparently it's a good day to ask and defend your rights. Aha. What does my sign say, Sanda? That you are moody because of the financial situation. Well, well, the horoscope is not saying lies. Tell him I'm giving him 100 lei more. What does your sign say, Sanda? That I manage to solve a money issue.
(Translated by Denisa Stanciu / 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. 
