Lemme tell ya a story to fall asleep so I can go to drink, ok? Let your old man tell ya a story. Y'want? The big, curious eyes, while smiling, said Mo drinks bir? Look at him, both small an' smart. It can be easily noticed that we are related by blood. Mo drinks bir? Shuddup, child, don't let yo mom hear yacuz she gonnaskin both of us. Do yawanna tell yathat fairytale with those two sisters who were resting on a brunch? Mo drinks bir. How now, child, shuddup otherwise you upset me and imma not gonna tell ya anything. Mo drinks bir. Son of a b*tch, shuddup. Moaa, oa, oa. Now, now, letyomom come and tell yathe story.
(Translated by Beatrice-Ioana Huruială / 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 December 2021, the group has 7.750 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
