His eyes were smiling as he came out of the exam room. He stopped at the top of the stairs, dramatically fixing up his tie, and looked down at the crowd gathered in front of him. Proud as he was to have everyone's eyes on him, and looking like he was having his picture taken on the red carpet with an Oscar in his hand, all he said was this:
I'm a boss. I got everything. Then he slowly descended the stairs with a blinding smile on, like an American superstar. After graduating, life shook Chivu up a few times, as if to convince him that he was an exotic fruit that got lost among Romanian apples.
(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. 
