Well, how can I not know what that is? Do you remember those small chocolates? From time to time, my mom would bring us a bag of those. She gave them to in turns, two per day. She hid them from us, but my sister and I found the spot where she was hiding them. We agreed that we would take two each and we swore to stick by that promise. But me, greedy as I was, didn't stick by it, and my sister caught on. She took the chocolates and replaced them with purgatories. I took them all and went to the movies with Gigi. A comedy was playing. We laughed until we purgatoriid us.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
