The child is still small, even though she's standing, she can't reach the tabletop, and it's a bit strange to see those men only from the belly down. Outside, it says Brewery, but her dad calls it Varicose Veins' and serves her first, there's a secondary table below. That's where he initially lays the mugover which the foam is poured. He's up to his ears.He gets on bus number 2, the child soon falls asleep. In her dream, she pretends to be a grown-up and has her first beer with her father in a restaurant.
(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. 
