Cătălina Ionescu lived in a chic apartment, on the third floor. She had a neighbor, Stelian from the fourth level, who, in the moonlight, glanced at a ray that crept through the windows of the woman's house, trying to get inside. He sees her today, he sees her tomorrow, and his minds are burning with desires. Which will not become reality, obviously, because she had a friend, Cătălin from human resources. Frustrated, every time he met her in the elevator, Stelian whispered inaudibly, "You, exhibitionist."
(Translated by Irina Giurgiu / 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 January 2021, the group has 3.000 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
