I entered the shawarma place which had a coffee machine and asked for a heavenly affogato for then and a V sixty nimbus to go for later. The shawarma guy, also the coffee sommelier, gave me a bantering look. As if I'd asked a pure Frenchman for an oatmeal latte. He suddenly snorted. Cut the crap, he said in a serious tone. I need to make you a Cosmic latte. I took a sip. I didn't get to ask the shawarma guy what he put in it.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
