For the first time ever, the out-of-town colleague attends the party. He had been the star of high school, the best at football, drinking and girls. We got organized, we have blondes and brunettes in all shapes, mostly unfiltered from the fat barrel cut on the stump for our prodigal macho. Here he comes, we're all laughing and drinking while he's sober, just tasting and grimacing. Don't you haveRadler? Later on, I catch him on the phone: "I'm always your teddy-berry-boy, dear, and a guy with a crew cut sends him kisses on the screen. I'm going to get drunk for both of them.
(Translated by Oana Ionescu / 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. 
