A story is a glacier. She didn't particularly use the elevator, everyone who thought she was a bit crazy knew that. They teased her that she was an athlete and that's why she used the staris or kept telling her what the chances were of being stuck. All she knew was the panic she felt in front of an elevator. Anxiety attacks she didn't understand. Below was the repulsion towards her own body. Frequent showers, which in fact caused her nausea when she touched her breasts or the area between her legs. Deep down was the rape she had forgotten about.
(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. 
