I said to myself, that's it, from today you only give grades. No cordial spasms, giggles, or amnesiac granny's wonders. Just, fair and to the point. Yes, but there isn't a bad or good, lame or brilliant, funny or sad, misogynistic or misandry, colorful or black and white, semicolon or no-comma writer that I don't like. I prefer everything. I would read everything. And I really have to, because I'm editor-in-chief at a prestigious publishing house and I have to choose only one out of 23 scribes for publication. I have to separate them somehow. I got an idea. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe; catch a tiger by his toe...
(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. 
