At a karmic pub in Tibet, right next to China, the great Good-for-Nothing Lama was chatting over a beer with Oh Dear Lama and the younger Dilly-Dally Lama's disciples. Life, said Good-for-Nothing Lama, is a deep, cold well; you have to work to draw water from it. Oh Dear Lama crossed himself, because it was allowed on Thursdays. Dilly-Dally Lama was left speechless. The Master realized what he had said and fainted, maidenly. It was unforgivable to talk about water in a pub. The disciples grabbed the master by the nirvana and pulled him out in shame.
(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 June 2023, the group has 11,430 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. 
