Do you know him? No, I've never seen him, the father nodded and drove him away from the gate. The dog wagged his tail and stopped in the middle of the way. He looked through the cracks with wet eyes. The child threw him a piece of his sandwich and the dog caught it from the air. He petted his nose through the gate and then he left. The next day, the dog was still there. Same the other day. Their friendship started unintentionally and their love for each other grew bigger than the gate. When the father saw the dog there, we no longer denied anything. He noticed the eyes of his son in the dog too.
(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. 
