Just one beer? Never. Sad times. Those were the good old days when I'd visit three or four breweries within 100 m and didn't know where I forgot my cap or my bicycle the next day. There's a lot of drunkards in big cities. You can get lost in anonymity, you don't become notorious like you do in provincial cities, where people can recognize the sound of your footsteps when stagger about drunk. But, as the saying goes, as many roads, as many perspectives. Here, in small towns, there are no such organizations as AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, it's impossible, everyone knows each other. How can you be anonymous?
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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. 
