Girl, I found out, don't even think about finding an excuse for yourself. Pull the chair closer and let's talk, I mean let me tell you what this is about. I get you, after all that honeymoon you felt we should spice it up a bit. And whoever put this bar in our driveway is the best neighbor. Shall I order some more? You see, he also knows how much mustard you like and how brown your mici should be. The thing is, his wife also knows how much salt to put on the rim of the mug. We're having a good time. We had a good time. Do you think there's any point in splitting up?
(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. 
