C-c-come here, p-pooch. I w-won-won't do you no h-harm. I j-just w-want to pet you. M-my n-name is Sam. Y-you?W-wh-what's y-your n-name? I reach out, a biscuit in my hand. The scared puppy keeps its snoutdown. It's trembling all over. B-B-Beautiful pooch, look, a bi-bi-biscuit. I sit next to it on the ground. We both hide from the world, each with our own traumas, sharing the last biscuit. D-do-does e-everyone h-hate you t-too?
(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. 
