You know the recipe, love: you wash your hair, towel it down, add 50 ml of water to 100 ml of beer and pour the mixture over your wet hair. You let it dry, uncurl with your fingers and voilà. I hate the smell of beer, mom, I can't pour that in my hair. Honey, it doesn't smell when it dries, at least I didn't smell it when I used to use it. I can tell, though, that they, the beer lovers, felt I was attracting them like fruit flies. Ah, yes, that was the downside: you'd sometimes wake up with flies in your hair.
(Translated by Oana Ionescu / 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. 
