05.06.2022
The story of the Russian elite soldiers coming in by elevator and the Ukrainians cutting off their power is unbeatable. That's how I calmed down. There was also the story of the Romanian tourist in New York who, coming out of a big elevator, said, in Romanian, that he hated Americans, adding: because you are stupid. From the elevator, it was heard: maybe not all of us. You know, of course, the story of how I got stuck in an elevator with Miss Romania, who had just come out of a relationship and got into the elevator with me. If you don't know it, I hate you.

(Translated by Bianca-Maria Marinescu / 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.

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