Vlad Mușat
The family and the best friends have been on my birthday. I have received many gifts. After we ate the cake, we went to play football. Romania vs Argentine, the Petrolului Baicoi, stadium, 1994. I picked the longer straw, so I play on Romania's side. The Sun forced us to wear hats (with the visor in the back). The stands seemed filled with supporters, but there were the sparrows returned to the nest from the corner of the stand. The smell of grass and the joy of the game. When the ground swipes off my feet, that day I escape.
Miruna Marin
The family and the best friends have been on my birthday. I have received many gifts. After we ate the cake, we went to play football. Romania vs Argentine, the PetroluluiBaicoi, stadium, 1994. I picked the longer straw, so I play on Romania's side. The Sun forced us to wear hats (with the visor in the back). The stands seemed filled with supporters, but there were the sparrows returned to the nest from the corner of the stand. The smell of grass and the joy of the game. When the ground swipes off my feet, that day I escape.
Paul Dârvariu
We create a remake after that Bill Murray movie. It will be named The Night of the Mole. The script has been written by Paul and I can't remember his last name because these Romanian names are hard for me to remember. The main character is an engineer. He has to solve a power outage in the city, but while at it he also solves the hotel owner, in a hot 15 minutes scene. The movie will be low budget, because the scenarist and the performer of the main role have no exaggerated claims, and the role of the groundhog is played by a black cat. It will be dark anyway and nobody would notice.
(Translated by Maria Cătălina Moisescu / 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 April 2024, the group has 12,860 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.