No, I definitely don't want a dog. I don't want to pick up shit with a bag, vacuum hair every day and having a smelly house. No more going away on holidays, no more sleeping late in the morning. Like it or not, we'll be home every night to walk him. I don't want to spend money on food, leashes and vet. I don't want to because he'll go before anyone else and I've never experienced more pain than when Zoro died. In fact, I don't want to love him and most of all, I don't want our child to love him.
(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. 
