Interstellar coffee and bar sounded good, I steered the ship of fools, lifted the lap of my dress and jumped overboard to grab a table on which to put my boots, don't be afraid, the barman winked, I won't wake you. Latte for everyone, I shouted, three measures milk, one coffee. Whisky for me, corrected the captain, spitting on my pump and wiping the star dust off with his sleeve, then added, give me a swift kick in the head and let's get the hell out of here, we're all flawed, but you drank half the Milky Way.
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
