If you took a right on Lipscani from Calea Victoriei, then a second right on Smârdan, you ended up at old man Papadakis' shop. He didn't have a shop front sign, but the colourful umbrellas in all sizes, hung on the wire above the entrance would clear up at once any confusion regarding the old Greek man's craft. He was alone, his wife had died a long time ago and they hadn't been blessed with any offspring. Maybe that is why his face would light up and his eyes would start to glimmer every time some little customer would step inside.
Geiá sas kýrie.(Translated by Jessica-Polixenia-Cristiana Copilaș / 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 May 2023, the group has 11,260 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. 
