Every morning, he proudly placed the carefully brought newspaper on the kitchen floor and sat waiting. The young man would pet his head and, after feeling his wet muzzle take the reward out of his hand, he would ask him: read it for me. And the dog would start barking and squealing and howling at the ceiling and panting, as he knew best. And then, wagging his tail full of hope, he would put the white cane in the young man's lap. Even though they couldn't play catch, as they did when he was just a little boy and didn't need a cane, a walk would have been woofderful.
(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. 
