Hey, mister, what are you doing under my bed, with those bloodshoteyes like two x-rays.Well, I want to. Oh, my God, you goddamn beast.Wait, lady, what were you thinking, I want too scan you. I've never seen a creature like you in my life.What are those electrifying little wires your legs are full of and that you've disturbed my vision with. Listen, asshole, those are the sensors I used to track you under the bed, looking for my shoes.You know, some old lady told me if I keep a pair of shoes under my bed, I'll get married.Gee, what a fate.
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
