I've said it countless times: this is the last glass, tomorrow I'm done drinking for good. Not to mention tobacco. And coffee, sex, Facebook, ham, pastries, dilly-dallying in the morning, lies, love, hate, watching porn, buying useless crap, staring at women's asses, and so on. I haven't succeeded. Now, just a soul, I happily head towards hell, a cigarette in the corner of my mouth and a bottle of whisky in hand. Shocking: at the gate, a three-headed guard dog the size of a mammoth. There, pooch. Who's a good little Cerberus?
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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. 
