The Romanian Drugs Institute presents to you The morning after, a somewhat psychological-borderline-psychiatric text, which you can interpret any way you want. From an epigram to a stream-of-consciousness novel, a cookbook, colouring book or a book of complaints, it started out as being a debt notebook at the village tavern, which is also where its name comes from. Do you want to no longer be depressed, to get rid of unwanted kilograms, of your neighbour's drill or of broken-up marriages? The morning after won't help, but also won't bother you too much.
(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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
