Tell me. In the movie, a little girl is kidnapped and left on a back street at night. The Dog of Darkness comes - and he doesn't let anyone live. His dark shadow approaches, growing larger, black even in the darkness of the unlit street. Next to a wall, the girl stands, frightened, holding a doll to her chest, her hat askew over one eye. The shadow widens up the wall. The girl looks up and sees that the shadow has the shape of a puppy. She stops crying and smiles widely at the Dog: little puppy? What next? Poof! the dog deflates like a balloon. WTF? Exactly.
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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. 
