I know you like cappuccino, but I dare you to have a latte. This late? What makes it special? Get in the car and I'll show you. After a few good miles of curves on the Poienii Road, we arrived at my favorite spot. Um, how do you find Brasov? We stare, hand in hand, at the city lights. Now that's a view. The moon wraps stars in tinfoil and hangs them from the sky. In the parking lot, a guy sells coffee from his trailer. You're so crazy, I thought we were going out to a pub. We lean against the hood and raise a lantern. I've got a chocco. You want some?
(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. 
