Vasi terrorized us when he walked his black Doberman. We glued ourselves to the building's walls, so as not to be seen and targeted, because he was having a lot of fun pitting his dog against children. I was afraid of the bad boy and so I gave him chewing gum and Rahane, just to have him leave me alone. But he was crueller than the Doberman, and one day I became his victim and I had a terrible shock, both the paramedics and the police came, chaos. Vasi was sent to juvie, and the dog to the pound. His name is no longer on my mind, there are just the marks of the canines on my cheeks.
(Translated by Cristina-Bianca Ion / 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. 
