There once was a Prince Charming elevator boy. Fearless, he fought all day long with the Worst of the Worst, of Steel and Glass. And in the pockets of his
silk-spun pound he gathered a hundred stories. Only his was missing. Until one day when a Fair Lady parked in his elevator. They told tales of youth without old age and life without death. Then they pooled their small bag of two coins in the palace of increased comfort and together made a fairy tale and a little story. And they lived happily ever after.
(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. 
