Luck didn't hold him dear and if he played the lottery ticket, he would catch the word Debts, written three times, on a scratched note. I invited him to an Asian restaurant one winter for his birthday; he ordered 8 lucky charms, on each of which it was written:
wash the dishes. He had sneezed and I wished him luck; he looked askance at me saying, it's easy for you being born on the 13th, so I gave him some advice. The next day he played naked poker with his girlfriend and won. He took the opportunity and followed my advice; he took matters into his own hand as to say.
(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. 
