What is a living room? A dining room. That's what it was called in communism.Well, if you have the kitchen connected to the living room, it's an open space. The open space where you live. Like what are you doing in the bedroom? When you sleep or make love isn't it all called living? What are you doing in the bathroom? What are you doing, I said loudly, so he could hear me. Why does it take so long? Ready. I don't know if she's crying for happiness. Her hand trembles as if she has four lifelines in her palm. The waiting room becomes a living room again. I hope it's a girl, because between two, it doesn't rain.
(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. 
