Last time he heard the barking near the phone cabin from the back of the theatre. He returned daily to the same place and waited. It passed more than 15 years from that moment on, since Max, his golden Labrador was no more next to him. He did this on the basis of his loyality more than his expectations. And so would have done Max. Today it rained and he took refuge in his isolated cabin. Suddenly the phone rang. He picked it up reluctantly and put it to his ear. Through parasites and whirrings it seemed to him to be able to distinguish the barking before his voice recovered.
(Translated by Teodora Stoian / 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 November 2021, the group has 7.500 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. 
