Dad, will you buy me a dog? Kid, do we really need a dog? Who's going to take care of it? A dog needs walks, food, it's not that easy. Furthermore, your mom is afraid of dogs. Do you want her to throw all three of us out? I'll take care of it, dad, I promise. And I'll train it to be good and not scare mom. Hey, that dog Radu has gave birth to six puppies. There's a brown one that keeps following me. Will you take it for me? I don't know what to say. Pleaaasee. Oh, well, but has it got a pedigree? No, dad, what gray? Didn't I tell you that it's brown?
(Translated by Cristina-Bianca Ion / 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. 
