Him, a proud teenager. Don't go in my room, I'll clean it. Ricky, equally proud. His floppy ears and tail, which we refused to cut off, made him unique. Proud and militant. Woof - Woof, let me in your room, why am I not allowed in there? Go away, you're not allowed in my room, you slob. Listen, woof, don't call me a slob, I'll watch you until you forget to close the door and I'll catch you, I'll shit right in the middle of the room. One day he left the door open. That's how the war started.
(Translated by Andreea Tobă / 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. 
