At the Dimitrov crossroads, right at the trolleybus stop, facing the Iulia Hasdeu High School, Belmondo's Simina had set up her kiosk. It used to be her grandmother's, but as Baba Zoița had died, she took over the business. What a beautiful gypsy was she. And smart, damn it. A pleasure to buy her flowers. I was trying to impress a girl, I can't even remember her name now. I wanted to give her a special flower. What flower are you recommending me, Simina? For you, handsome, I have something you've never seen before:
Lamium purpureum.(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
