Every morning they receive their favourite duo, a contrast that instantly brings them to life: the fiery blonde, Zina, serving them steaming black coffee. Slowly, being now in high spirits, minds launched their brilliant ideas like fireworks into the room. They are the 13 hottest marketers in town. They know everything about nothing and can take your business to the highest. The fated name shines on the brightness of the firm in the street: Lucky 13. Today's meeting is a real success. Victim: Christmas. Somewhere in the world, a crib cries. Herod triumphs.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
