My ex liked Steaua. But not the top star, the one you couldn't tell if it was FCSB or the Army. The current one with Dinamo. The one who has been training for the Champions League since Borcea was with his second-to-last wife. I'd like to say I used to care about Rapid, but only because I knew their anthem and felt at home everywhere. And more than matches, with these guys I saw 300. The heroes of Thermopylae. It was almost a ritual, whoever said awu-awu-awu it was clear that I was saying: you take the vacuum cleaner because this is Sparta.
(Translated by Cristina-Nicoleta Costache (Mircea) / 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. 
