Go on and bark, this was the voice that could have been heard from behind the school, followed by different tones of laughter. When I got there, Johnny had just thrown a piece of bread to the ground: take it and eat it, unless I throw at you my shoe in your nose. Vasile was shakingly kneeling to the ground with his uniform full of mud. He was looking at the bread on the ground with an empty expression, one of a man on the edge of a cliff. He's my dog and I am training him now, laughed Johnny one last time to all of us, and no one could stop the rock with which Vasile cracked his head.
(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. 
