Mahmud, who moved with his family to Bucharest a few years ago, had taken paths محمد that was not too proud of. He had forgotten the teachings of the Koran, came home drunk, vaped, and sniffed while his father and mother pulled hard to carve out a future for him. He got involved with the dean of medicine's daughter and in no more than three months had squandered half his parents' fortune. Ahmmad had saved him from jail when he almost killed an old woman on a pedestrian crossing with the CLS he had received as a gift. When the dean called him, he almost fainted. You're going to get us in trouble.
(Translated by Florina Șamata / 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 February 2023, the group has 10,500 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. 
