When he signed the deal with Auchan, he enjoyed it like someone who was doing what he liked. In the bio product aisle, on the traditional gourmet shelf, his creations were obediently lined up, under the
Bottled dreams brand. There were only 3 types:
The existential picklings of a pickled tomato's dream of being perfect; How amazingly bittersweet are the country's plums; Stoic picking of gooseberries for the brave, ideally spicy. He wanted to launch another brand,
The philosophy of the cauldron; just to convince his wife and mother-in-law that
gnosefood is not some kitchen-ry business.
(Translated by Bianca Ioana Prisecaru / 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. 
