Ai, Ana Alumanole, by profession Caregiver, I'm bringing to your attention the following com plain aganst my Husband Manole by profession Bricklayer its not true that he put me into the Monasterys wall it was setup hatched by the poeet Alec Sandri in reality he sent me to work in Italy to send him Eurosses to drink them up with his buddies in the pub annd he ran to Span so I los Track of him and couldn't ask for Alimony anymore I ask that you look fer him with the interpol and condemn him for Unlawful Bricklaying and Familial Apandonment.
(Translated by Andreea Teodorescu-Colciu / 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.