No one thought I would live to this day. It's the merit of the doctor who invented the magic serum. It is true that many went to the invention, the birth rate dropped dramatically and we were few. But we lack nothing. We are treated with lichens, we eat mushrooms and the garbage disappears slowly thanks to the researcher who trained the fungi to decompose the plastic. The world is becoming natural again, quiet and unpolluted, although a thousand years ago everything seemed lost. Only my daughter doesn't finish this damn math homework from 2021.
(Translated by Emilia-Georgiana Călinescu / 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. 
