I saw the light last night, but I don't remember anything after that. What can I tell you, man, I had the longest, most orgasmic sex ever. I also had about ten hybrid babies growing up on that green planet. Such zonal organs that reptilian had. You'd be pissedif you saw them. Didn't you miss a minute when you had ten babies? Otherwise there's time out there, plus their genetic material. When the Martian sees the kids he's got, he sends them to you to raise them. The stupid tested me before. I'm a genius. I'm getting better because of alcohol.
(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.