Cocuța, I entered a contest. It's called the Sex Alphabet. The grand prize is a vacation in Balı. It says we have to do it every day, always in a different place, in alphabetical order, until we tick off all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet. How many have we ticked so far? Three. Monday on the A1 highway, Tuesday on the bench in Tineretului Park and Wednesday on the couch. Today we'll do it on the driveway and tomorrow on an elephant at the zoo. And that's nothing. Get your mountain gear ready. Next Thursday we'reclimbing Kilimanjaro.
(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. 
