Maria, it happened like this: we were lying in our marital bed reading Schopenhauer. Suddenly, a green light filled my bedroom, and I heard a metallic voice: I am Gygo, commander of the intergalactic shuttle KW22. You have been designated our preferred supplier of Earth genetic material. We'll send a courier to you for harvesting. I didn't get a chance to say no, because I found myself with this blond woman in bed. Ask her. Madame, are you an alien? Of course, I am. You see, Maria, I didn't lie to you.
(Translated by Florina Șamata / 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 February 2023, the group has 10,500 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. 
