Should I go on that trip, is it worth it the exhaustion and the money spent? Tails it is, heads it isn't. Should I eat this chocolate, I know it has calories, but it's mint flavoured? Tails yes, heads no. Should I start another school again, can I survive another college? Tails yes, heads no. Should I call him when he is upset with me, won't he say that I don't have any pride left? Tails yes, heads no. Should I buy that spinning little red dress, would I have the courage or an occasion to wear it? Tails yes, heads no. Hey, you know that that coin has tails on both sides and no heads, right? Shut up.
(Translated by Jessica-Polixenia-Cristiana Copilaș / 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. 
