Welcome to the Romania of 3050. Everything is perfect. People are enjoying the nature that has been saved from the ecological disaster. The work is done with responsibility and with pleasure. The money disappeared. Everyone gets what they need. The school is truly holistic. Daddy, Daddy wake up. It has been announced that the electricity will be cut off for a month, the radiators are cold, the stores are closed. He looks at the girl confused, while his inner voice whispered: Wake up, Romanian and stop dreaming of a utopian world.
(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. 
