I fell in love with the neighbor from 12. Blonde, thin in the middle and with a dancer's ass. I saw her the day she moved in and have been stalking her like a lion stalking its prey ever since. She runs every morning around 5 but I'm too lazy to wake up to accidentally meet her in the elevator so I ride the elevator all day hoping to accidentally see her. It's been three weeks now. My vacation's over and nothing. I don't understand this woman. Why does she take the stairs all the time? She lives on the 12
th floor.
(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. 
