From about a light-year away, Zg75 and Wt92 had caught a glimpse of the planet. They also knew the language and customs, for they had learned foreign languages, medieval cultures. They spotted the UFO sign on the barn in Poplaca. The natives were welcoming and lit only on brandy. The plate blinked colorfully, and he waved it forward. At about 200,000 km, the Zg75 blushed and giggled rustily. The plate now looked fine: Orgasms Day 'N High Noon. Wt92 yawned binoculars as big as the moon, then laughed and corrected it cavernously: Culinary Orgasms / Day 'N High Noon.
(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. 
