I run quickly to the elevator, a male hand interposes itself between the doors that give to close. I'm rescued, I tell myself in thought. I've got time to
re-dye my lips by the time I get to the interview. How high are you going up? I look up and meet the sexiest eyes. Piercing and at the same time surprised by my awkwardness. My heel remains stuck in the space below. Oh, shoot. I'm not going up, even more barefoot? How the hell should I get to grumpy John Smith like this? Don't go anymore, he smiled charmingly. I'm right here.
(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. 
