I found him one evening in the park. I couldn't bear to see him sad, so I took him home. I took care of him, gave him something to eat, and then called him to bed. The cold nights of loneliness were finally over. Everything was perfect. He loved me unconditionally, full of gratitude. He'd go wherever I went, agree with everything I did, and faithfully follow me everywhere. After a year, I told him that I wanted to break up. I couldn't live with a man who relied so much on me, who lacked personality and had no opinion of his own. I'd rather get a pooch.
(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. 
