Good afternoon, we are talking to the oldest person living in the Apuseni area. You recently turned 91 and you have been married for 73 years. Please tell us, what is the secret to such a long marriage? The strong stuff, my dear, I've always liked that very much. But I enjoyed the taste too. I see. When we were younger, this old husband of mine sure knew how to whip it. Now he gives it to me black. But it's still sweet. Are you married to a black man? Don't talk nonsense. How could he be black, my dear? My old husband makes the best coffee in the world. That's the secret.
(Translated by Ruxandra Adriana Dodoiu / 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. 
