He's the laziest man in the world. He's married to a girl who's pregnant by another guy. When he finishes work, he doesn't want to come home. He tried to have sex once, but he's sitting around like a fool waiting for an earthquake to move him. He raises laziness to an art form. He has an unmistakable style of speaking, at first and thirty-one. The worst of it is that he plagues those around him with his laziness. Now he's out walking his puppy. Help; catch the thief; my purse, cries a lady. Jump on him, Griveeei. Wooof, wooof.
(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. 
