Honey, we're going to TIFF, that's it, get dressed. Where are we going? At TIFF, honey, what, you don't know about it? It starts today. Aha, I saw it on Google. Wait a moment, let me see what I can wear. Did you get tickets, in what class, are we going again to economy with all the paupers? What class, dear, we are going to Florin Piersic. Is he also coming? Since when do you know all the artists, honey? No, honey, to Mihai Viteazu square, to Florin Piersic. I understand, is he taking us, does he have a private jet? Is he invited? What are you talking about, we're taking Boc's subway, we're walking. To Toronto, isn't it too far away?
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
