The dog has to be warned using the newspaper. The newspaper that hides a clenched fist. Lead-like fingers strike the damned pooch rummaging in the entrails of a gray bed. On the tiles, flakes of blood mix with crushed sponge clumps, and the swollen face of the mutt, whimpering in a corner, continues to look lovingly at the aggressor. The bully grinds curses through gritted teeth. Then the eyes full of love collide with the eyes engulfed by hate. He calls it. The pooch, with its playful tail and ears slightly bent in fear, approaches. The final blow.
(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. 
