Ng calls Mbo, Ode and Mu at the table. They're cramming into the small but clean room. They pray and share sweetcorn porridge. They finish eating and wait in silence. Ode presses the button briefly and the pot fills with recycled water. They drink one at a time, slowly, solemnly. The Muwes are happy. The Muwe family comes out and Ng carefully locks the room built with windows donated by the Americans. It must be kept clean. They have guests tonight. $8 million has been allocated for the construction of 38,000 latrines in Rwanda.
(Translated by Denisa Dărăban / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / 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 January 2021, the group has 3.000 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
*Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
