Take notice, Mișu, never say never. Never say never, as they say. You ask why? Because never means the way out, the total abandonment, the absolute irrevocable. Imagine that, through a convenient miracle, you wake up with Pamela Anderson in your lap. She shoves her hand in your underwear and her tongue in your ear and asks you if you want to have sex with her. Can you say never? Let's say you can, but isn't it a shame that she came all the way from Hollywood to Dâlga for you, loser?
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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 June 2023, the group has 11,430 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. 
