After the Great Mushroom we had to leave the planet. We were assigned a patch of land on a satellite. We cultivated it. Wheat. Swinging the bale of straw through the thin Plutonian air made my husband, a vengeful choleric, assume overzealousness and feast us with a slice. His farmer fist let some green stars from the purple sky bring us. Both my daughter and I stayed knocked out in the domestic space, this family micro-cosmos, for about three days. I drink my coffee through a straw.
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
