Modern prose

Head problems are all Joe can think about his wife Miriam. She hears voices, cries and acts scary. The wife's long-awaited pregnancy turns out to be a seriou...

The collection of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya includes her new stories and novellas, as well as works already known to readers. Petrushevskaya’s heroes are peopl...

A story about the life of a little boy and his encounter with the national question.

Personality outline of the farm paramedic Mishka - bright head, hard-working hands...

Summer life in an old house, in a village, among other things, is also happily different from city life in that there is living life all around: herbs and fl...

“There are only four stories, and no matter how much time we have left, we will retell them in one form or another,” wrote Borges. This work is a kind of att...

All of us at least once in our lives indulge in reflection on the meaning of life. In this collection, the author collected all his feelings in poetry, start...

How often do we resort to indignation and how rarely do we take action? And let those who approached were deceived, but what a deception. A simple story abou...

One step - and you left your familiar world. One step and you are left without your own shadow. There is nowhere to step, nowhere to go, and only the Moon is...

This is the story of Ariadne, the last Oracle who lived under the dome in the Invincible City. Before the dome disappeared.

The road is always an adventure... And nowadays anything can happen on the roads, and even in the 90s... A story from the collection "Under the Russian Stars...