Silvi, Silvi, he's not for you. Look, he's married, he's got kids! Oh, no, not the other one. He's had white hair for half a century now. How? Didn't you say that there must be a balance, even in age? I thought you didn't like blondes. God forbid. You've changed your taste in men from a shot of cherry brandy. What kind of business you have with the little one? Let him grow, can't you see that he's still living with his mummy? He's a virgin, you crazy! What's left for me then? Jackie Chan, The Money Boss, His Beatitude. Damn, I only have three left. I'll be celebrating New Year's Eve alone!
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
