I am a communist elevator with progressive ideas. Don't think I'm going to a psychologist. He came to me. She, more precisely. Discreet perfume, low voice, few words, she says to me 'Don't open up in front of everyone anymore. It's okay to say no. You don't even have to stay closed all the time, you have to find a middle ground.
Don't let people push your buttons. I followed her advice, people got angry, some punched and kicked. Everyone is screaming that I'm DEFECTIVE, but let's not be so categorical, I heard it could be
burnout.
(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. 
