What do the stars order at the cafe? Espresso Nebulosso, Decaf Pleiade. Constellate/Starry coffee is your everyday coffee, plain or sweetened with star powder. The Sun coffee is the most expensive, you shine brighter for a whole year. Castor and Polux cappuccino, you get the love of your brother, Andromeda Caffé is enough to last as long as three at how big it is. Watch out for the Espresso Evening-Star, you drink one, you cut in front of everyone. Cosmic Latte, however, is paradise, it sinks into your whole being, disintegrates and reassembles you into whatever shape you want.
(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. 
