We helplessly witness the last struggles of civilization. Angry, retrograde and insensitive children throw their innocence in the dustbin of history, choosing anarchy. The adults, engrossed by the RV in their glass bubble, have given up caring about the well-being of the city and purr, unhindered, in their ideological metaverse. Prometheus and all his people are dead and gone, and Nostradamus messed up his calculations long ago. And now, Busu follows up with the news about what the weather will be like this week. Busu?
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
