No, I don't act like an idiot often, only when somebody's interested in me and likes me. Aha. No one managed to create an induced state of humiliation for me. Aha. All the more so, I don't understand, why are you keeping me locked up? Hm. I like things that come from the heart, spontaneously. Ah. You see, exactly as you say aha, hm, ah, that's how I understood the whole incident, simple. And the result? I'm in an insane asylum. That it doesn't happen to everyone, I understand, but that my own dog started talking, telling me I love you, that's something else. Something simple.
(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 March 2023, the group has 10,790 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
