We became friends on a rainy day, when a car almost crushed us both on the pedestrian crossing near Capșa. Since then, nothing and no one has ever separated us. We've laughed, we've cried, we've endured storms, and we've grown. Together. And we still do. I dread to think that one day his blue and so sincere eyes will close forever, and with them a part of my soul will fly away too. Until then, I'm happy to announce that Lucky, my ebony-furred doggo, turns 13 today.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 February 2023, the group has 10,500 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. 
