Welcome, Vlad. Technology has turned us into zombies, but things will not stay that way. We are the future. Vlad, in sneakers? Here are the pointed shoes. And apply some gel to that curly hair. Take this shirt too. Oh, I was going to forget about the gun. Now you're ready. We start with something light, with an Animal X, then we listen to something from L.A. and we end with a few movies on VHS. We have BloodSports, Karate Kid and Die Hard. I woke up panicking. I went to the fridge to get some milk. To be consumed before March 12th, 1998.
(Translated by Andreea-Alexandra Șerbănescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / 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 May 2022, the group has 8,350 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. 
