Millions of years have passed since we travelled through space in search of a new home, another planet to rebuild our new civilisation. Already generations have been born and died in space without knowing life outside the spaceship. They have been born and learned who we are, educated never to make the mistakes of those who caused the exodus. It's so long ago that cats evolved, they talk to us. In sealed capsules we have all the seeds we need. We're all hoping that suddenly, from the depths of space, a little blue will appear on our screens.
(Translated by Cristina-Nicoleta Costache (Mircea) / 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 July 2022, the group has 8,750 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. 
