In an autumn like a wallpaper, Simone, from the Simulation one, changes her profile picture on Chasebook, the most popular app of the century. Ithas been ten years since she was in a relationship with Virtual and today they were celebrating their first meeting from the Chasebook when she had received the message: you're a sweetheart, I would kiss you on the screen and mostly on your freckles. Simone, was in a black dress with a generous neckline while Virtual was video calling her: I hope you had finished the stuffed cabbage rolls on time. Certainly, the present perfect had survived verbal tenses.
(Translated by Zahra Kazemi / 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. 
