Alecu had a cottage to rent. His daughter was greeting a guest arriving for a traditional Moldavian stay. It was freezing cold. So, the guest is from America. Yes, from Texas, said the young man. Welcome, my dear boy. We welcome you with rinds, caltaboși and sausages. We'll even give you a little drink called țuică, not Coca-Cola like you drink. The texan nodded and smiled without understanding. You'll learn to play and squeal. Kiwi? he was glad to recognize the word. Yes, to squeal. After two shots, you'll be one of us.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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. 
