What did master Lao use to say? He who does not go out with the boys to drink beer, goes out with them to drink champagne. Hahaha, cool. What about the porno one? Which one? The one that goes that non-alcoholic beer is like watching a porno movie on the radio. Hahaha, good one. Who the hell is this Lao? It's like he brainwashed you with alcohol. He's Berică from Crivina's kid. He took some guru classes and now he teaches us things about life. He's teaching you zilch, you yeast-filled bums. And what will you do when you run out of money for beer? Oh, well we'll go to Mitru's, because he gives out plum brandy and writes your name down in a notebook. And Lao? He doesn't come, because he can't handle hard liquor.
(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. 
