The house from the back of the garden, surrounded by the low stone wall, is her dream place. Day after day, after school, this space frozen by time, pulls her out of reality - mommy, please, just a few more minutes. Beyond the walls of the cabin 45 and the world of the simulator is her father's farm, with sensors measuring soil moisture, hanging crates in which carefully monitored vegetables grow under artificial photosynthesis light. Anna, from today you have to start studying, and sprinkles kiwi seeds in her palms.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 2023, the group has 11,430 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
