16.04.2025
Andra Toropoc
She eats a lot and she's fat, but she goes to the gym, she's in love with the machines, she kicks her legs and wiggles her butt so much that everything around her shakes. Even that nice guy, but due to laughter, poor one. Because he thought the punching bags should hang from the bicycle, he took one without hesitation and pulled it towards him. A scream equally diluted between delight and amazement stopped him, because he grabbed a butt cheek that fell over the almost invisible saddle between two huge folds of flesh moving frantically.

Carmen Tot
Living in the small old house, he built the big houseon the other side of the yard, where she welcomed her daughter-in-law and where they had been pushing a huge wardrobe full of dowry on the stairs like enemies, the daughter-in-law wanted to move it in the small house. Meanwhile, as she was catching her breath, she saw two little girls preparing to jump from above where her mother was, to her. The yard became smaller and smaller, until the houses stuck together so tightly, that the walls between them melted from the heat and the wardrobe was left for everyone.

Yuka Brevi
Please, talk about yourself during the first part of the interview. About studies, previous experience, aspirations, disponibility for delegations and overtime work, stress resistance and, he adds with an ironic smile - it seemed to me - what would you do if you had a million dollars? During the second part, we'll talk in detail about our requirements, and, last but not least, we'll briefly talk about salary and benefits. I got up and left. He made me angry and I had just got an idea for my next bestseller: What to do with a million?

(Translated by Cristina-Andreea Dobre / 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 October 2024, the group has 13,400 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, Monica Aldea, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)

Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale.

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