It's ringing. Outside the door, a caramel-coloured dog move its tail jovially, staring me in the eye. Yes, I made the call. Am I crazy, or is the animal talking? I only talk between 3th July and 11th August, the days of Sirius. Now I'm telepathically transmitting information to you. We and the dolphins have remained from Atlantis to share with you the mysteries of the World, to civilize you, to help you achieve a high degree of consciousness, to decipher the mysteries brought from the Orion constellation. Now give me a bowl of water and call me a good boy.
(Translated by Cristina-Nicoleta Costache (Mircea) / 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 2023, the group has 11,260 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. 
