I woke up after a long time somewhere in the future. I was told I am on Mars; all humanity had moved here. The Earth was inhabitable. I asked for an electric mirror and looked at myself, I looked 50 years old. I was told I had been cured; I was rid of the illness I used to have hundreds of years ago. I felt lost, the world in which I woke up was entirely foreign to me. I had no idea if I could ever get used to life in the future. And then I saw HER, and everything became extraordinary. And it still is.
(Translated by Ioana Grigoruţă / 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 June 2021, the group has 6.650 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
