Hello. Anna, have you arrived? Wasn't it hard with so many in the car, didn't you feel sick? Oh, you started yesterday? Good, and does it work? I guess. It's not easy with asparagus, Nacu told me as well. Does it hurt? Put cabbage leaves, as I told you. Well, my girl. How can he be, not so good. The day before yesterday he called you around the house since he woke up. I don't know if it was good that you sneaked away. He isn't saying anything today. Well, I'm trying to trick him, I put him at mine. It's just that mine don't have anything. What can be done, it will pass until you come home for Christmas.
(Translated by Alin-Marian Mărgescu / 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. 
