A man died, and his dog, overcome with grief, followed shortly after. They set off together, man and pooch, towards the place of eternal rest. They quickly reached the golden gates of eden. From the threshold, the gatekeeper pointed out the sign that said
No animals allowed. The man shrugged and went on, leaving eden behind, with the dog happily running ahead. After a while, they arrived at a small wooden gate. A rusty metal letter had fallen from it onto the grass. The man placed it back in its original position, next to the other three remaining letters. Look, Eden, your name, he said to the pooch. Let's go in.
(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. 
