Give me a sound economic reason you think this recession is a fiction. It is no fiction the number of people I know who have been laid off, or are now severly underemployed. What caused it is a matter of argument. That it exists is not.
A recession isn't defined by how many people you know who are laid off. "Recession" is an economic term, not a personal one. And there are few econometrics that show the United States is in a recession, your unemployed and underemployed coterie notwithstanding.
By the way, high unemployment does not a recession make.