I've opened a shop where I sell only coffee. I've also set up three coffee tables, because I'm interested in stories. After I eavesdrop, they come in with their order and I rarely give them what they want. It depends on the situation. If someone just broke up, they need more milk in their coffee. If it's a businessman waiting to sign a contract, coffee without sugar is the way to go. In the end, thank me. One customer's always a bitch. Me. I can never find the perfect combination, maybe because they don't sit with me and tell stories.
(Translated by Andreea-Iulia Ciucă / 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. 
