The bus was speeding into the night heading straight to the half light. The wind was blowing on the face of the traveller boy and his dog as if they have been in this position before. They were napping one swinging his head and the other one breaking dreams by moving his paw. It was only the ephemerides that burst through the windshield as the driver drove ahead and dropped them dead to the field. The dog was howling to the sky, the boy turned into a ray of light and the bus, driving around as a tireless ghost, hid behind stories about The Dog Constellation, about Sirius, about friendship.
(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / 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 May 2022, the group has 8,350 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. 
