Subcastes

This collection includes works by the wonderful Soviet satirists Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. Travel essays “Caution, covered by centuries!” and “Extraordinar...

A small collection of miniatures, built in the format of reasoning. This essay raises questions about passing time, lost love, childhood, life and death. The...

It turns out that there are also computer healers...

The idea for this novel came to me a long time ago, about 3 years ago. All the time I was overcome by doubts whether I could pull it off. However, water does...

A dream within a dream, within a dream, and all this is for sale. YouTube of the new era and a touch of retro music in a light sci-fi story with a touch of m...

(English Mark Twain, real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is a famous American writer.

Journalist Mikhail wants to find a good place to write articles, but local residents do not understand his intentions.

The world has reached a critical point. People would like to stop and think a little about the future, but no way! Profit and gain have destroyed humanity, a...

Humorous fantastic-realistic story. A situation that each of us can find ourselves in if we do not know the laws that change in our state with enviable const...

They both wanted to do this for a long time. But she couldn’t make up her mind, she was afraid, she thought that she was still too small. He waited patiently...

Osamu Dazai was born on June 19, 1909. He did not live long: on June 13, 1948, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the waters of the Tamagawa River...

First published in The Village Voice: The Weekly Newspaper of New York, 14–20 January 1981.