From under the green roofs of the huge trees, the houses are sprouting like mushrooms. Among the geese and birds, a drone slips in the sun. Ever since the device was invented that captures all the energy accumulated by a living person after death, the planet has been breathing again. In harmony with nature, we live longer. Everything is powered by human energy, including the shield around the earth. It's always a warm spring. When consumption increases due to storms in the universe, the older ones offer to jump off the rocks.
(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. 
