What is wrong with you, dear and beloved Grigore? Exactly eleven weeks ago, I remember it was a Sunday too, out of the blue you asked me to get undressed. Of course, I turned you down. Only today you told me you love me. Don't you know that in love there must be a timing? A gradation, so to say. I imagine in another eleven weeks you're going to propose. I think I'll turn you down again, Grigore. Nuts as you are, you'd be capable of wanting savarin cake for the first course and giblet soup for dessert.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 March 2023, the group has 10,790 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
