The shuttle is on the edge of the protected area. The guide goes on to explain: The integration of the locals was not possible because all 5,000 parliamentarians and the 10 presidents of the country strongly opposed it. All we know is that it's a utopian society where everyone works for the state and takes turns stealing when they need something. They don't know how to write and the most commonly used words are stork, badger, minced meat rolls (mici), plum-brandy (țuică), scrounging, corpses and blowjob. They probably have a religious meaning. That's why we declared the region a natural reservation.
(Translated by Denisa Dărăban / 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 November 2021, the group has 7.500 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 Ficțiuni Reale.