At Starbucks, an experienced employee trains a new colleague. Once you know the order, pay attention to the man and suggest one yourself. Men know what they want. Strong coffee. High school girls are tricky. For example, Gingerbread Frappuccino you give to a shy girl, she needs gentleness. Strawberries & Cream Frappuccino's for the teenage girl that's giddy. If she asks for your Toffee Nut Frappuccino, it's clearly that day of the month. When she wants Cosmic Latte, she's ovulating. Be very careful. She could get pregnant and we'd lose her as a client.
(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. 
