The aliens were categorical. For tens of thousands of years we have been stagnant in a phase that leads nowhere. For a species that reproduces / multiplies through two sexes so morphologically different, it is surprising that we fail to let ourselves be led by the sex that gives life, but by the one that spreads death. Even our gods, regardless of religion, are all male. They are not going to let us evolve technologically, it is too dangerous. I still have 24 hours to live. Like all people on Earth.
(Translated by Diana Stănescu / 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. 
