When he closed the elevator door, he realized he had left his phone on the kitchen table. He was just going to the market, there was no point in coming back. Then, half an hour later, with a bunch of flowers in his right hand, he walked into the alley in front of the block. He immediately spotted the Metallica T-shirt on the stairs. A few yards away, on the grass, exposed, lay his entire wardrobe. Even his laptop. He looked up. From the window, his wife threw the mobile at him. Answer your baby, tell her the fool won't leave the house. But you are.
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
