I am not good at math, can you help me? Sure, Mikey, let's see. What's your homework? This one, exercise number 13. I'm reading it. Two trains leave the station at the same time, in opposite directions. The first travels 111 km at a speed of 150 km/h and the second travels four times that distance at a speed of 300 km/h. I stopped reading. Listen, why don't I write to the teacher that you won't make it to school tomorrow and we'll go to the airport and sort this out? To the airport? Yes, dear, those are TGV speeds, not CFR.
(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. 
