The girls liked Fănel because of the skill he showed when fixing their equipment, but also because he made them come with an open heart to their night shifts. Fănel also liked to fix them one by one, in a corner away from the warehouse. He thought of fixing Flori in the elevator between the floors. Unfortunately, his
co-worker found the key in the tool kit and opened the door just during the repair. Fănel learned from this that he should never leave his tools near anyone.
(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. 
