A spicy elevator story? Not. My life is as dull as a metal box. Until I get to the stairs. Well, the stairs are different. You feel when you go up, you feel when you go down. Especially when you have thin ankles. When you have a fine nose, you feel others too. The
love-made stews, the perfume trails, the stories of the sad garbage left at the door. Ah, the doors. You can imagine whatever you want. Hear voices and weave lives. And I'm fascinated by their shape. They seem to tempt you to throw yourself all the time, don't they? A ceiling can always be a floor.
(Translated by Andreea Denisa Dinu / 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 April 2022, the group has 8,175 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
