He throw the stick and everyone run, even the elderly, to bring it, in a contagious joy, waiting for a gesture of praise, a pat on the head, bravo, you were good, sometimes he did, sometimes not, but he promised more and better food, wider cages where the bars were not even noticeable and the fulfilment of the supreme dream that he would never abandon any of the faithful. One day I grabbed my suit off the back of my chair, closed my computer and headed for the exit. Even I was surprised, the door was open.
(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. 
