They were sitting on the couch, side by side, in complete silence. He wanted to kiss her, she pulled back slowly, her eyes glued to the tassels on the carpet. To get up the courage, the woman asked him for a drink. He took two beers out of the fridge and poured each one into a pint. She chugged it right away. Then another, then three more. On the sixth one, she jumped on him. After the lovemaking was consummated on the couch, on the carpet, on the kitchen table, the woman apologized for getting drunk. The man never told her it was 0% alcohol beer.
(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. 
