I liked Mărgelatu the best in the movies. He was always smiling in drawings and coloring books. But in those movies, he was always with a cool character. I took my mom's overcoat, my grandpa's old hat, colored them with boot polish, and that was the outfit. Next, I took my dad's manual hacksaw, cut the PVC pipe into smaller pieces and with a bit of scotch tape, I also had the gun. And because it was winter, I took that good pillow and drew seeds on it. They haven't left me alone since.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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. 
