Happy birthday, Safta, wished Niculina, Zăvălâș's wife. Tell me, lass, how are you going to party? I'm making a romantic dinner for Tăgărâlă, he joked that he has a small blue surprise for me, said Safta, winking. Lassy, you're getting lucky. I'll come over tomorrow to find out how it was cause I'd buy Zăvălâș some surprises of those too. Safta, tell me everything, don't leave anything out. What can I say, Niculina? We ate, and then Tăgărâlă snored as a pig. What about the lil' blue surprise? Well, he said he liked my profile picture.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
