Since he had welcomed her in, St. Peter had no peace. Heaven had never been such a noisy place. The Big Boss was starting to get a little angry too. Well lad Pete, find a solution because I can't anymore. Do something to stop the noise because I can't even hear my thoughts anymore. All right, Chief. I arranged a transfer to Hell with Luci. Those damn fools can't wait for her. So be it, Pete. St. Peter took her by the hand and led her to the basement. At the gates of Hell, the devils were waiting for her with a huge sign: Tina Is Fuckin' Fantastic.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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.