In an Uber, with a more than pleasant driver. Intrusive beyond belief. I was telling you about the suicide of a character in one of my stories after breaking up with his girlfriend. You were engrossed. So was the driver. Even more than you. But why commit suicide? , he asked. He'd \'rather have a drink and get over it. Really? It's that easy? Yes, of course. You see, if he drank something decent of 40%, he'd come to his senses after any breakup. Whiskey? Glenfiddich, you added amused, and squeezed my hand gleefully.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Batog / 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. 
