I Love You, Beautiful Woman. This is what I wrote on the banner that I hung on the tallest building in Bucharest. I didn't climb to the last level. I thought the writing would not be visible from that height of 137 meters, so I stopped at the 20th floor. The climb was measly. It's not for nothing that I have a climbing gym subscription. I chose the moment well: the night between Sunday and Monday. Now the madness has started: police, ambulance, firefighters. I'm only coming down if they bring me Ana from the 6th. I hope her husband will let her come.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 2023, the group has 11,430 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
