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black-furred-little Husky with blue eyes was growing as you watch. He hugged Mara by her thick hips. He looked cluelessly: this is where I have Life, she explained to him happily. He looked as if he understood it all and glued his ears to what was said. He cheerfully and curiously greeted the baby and ever since then have become inseparable. He used to sleep on the carpet next to the crib. When Mara tuck in the baby to sleep, she would also pet Rex, whispering to him: What are you watching over here? Happiness, his eyes responded, I'm watching over Happiness.
(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. 
