The iron cage of the elevator is my favorite. Another era. Yesterday I dismounted, threw the reins to an imaginary garter and jumped into the elevator so swiftly that my
riding-cart ripped apart. I randomly went down, he was not expecting me, it was difficult for him to comprehend. Today my bare shoulders are carrying me away, I walk in and taste the champagne, a few grams of silk fall effortlessly on the floor. Tomorrow I will have a surprise for myself: the top floor. However, there are days when I go up the stairs tired, to my apartment, as if I was living there.
(Translated by Delia-Maria Cocoș / 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. 
