Happy New Year to all Romanians, said Ildiko on December 1st morning. Gheorghe jumped out of bed. Hey, you bitch, make me a glass of mulled wine. I didn't get any wine today, she added patiently. I ate mici, drank beer. The man's eyes glazed over. Get that beer already, he shouted. She pulled a bottle of non-alcoholic beer out of the hutch. God take me, he snapped, banging his fist on the table. Not even on the national day I'm not going to get anything to drink, let alone the Last Day. So fuck you, and go to hell, the woman replied.
(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 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. 
