I am such a lucky boy. Garlic is also a dog (
in Romanian garlic and dog are spelled alike - tranlator's note). So now I have as my best friend a garlic. He doesn't lick me, bite me, bark at me, I don't have to take him for a walk, I don't need to feed him, and he doesn't eat my drawings either as it happened to Ninel. He is my Lego Duplo enemy from Kindergarten. My life with Garlic is so beautiful and funny, but for some days he started turning yellow and growing a tail. No problem at all, I'll burry him in the garden so that other dogs grow from it.
(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. 
