I had a dream yesterday in which I had to choose between our love and being ambassador to Japan. I guess that job is incompatible with a relationship between a
19-year-old brat and a married woman. I woke up in a panic. What should I let go of? A distinguished position, or your love, Baby? But all of a sudden, I remembered that even though we live in the same town, we've never met. Who cares where we are? We'll finally harmonize our biorhythms. I'll write you messages in the daytime, and you'll read them at night, my sleepless darling.
(Translated by Cosmina-Florentina Ciobanu / 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. 
