“But how not to give in to a hawk circling in the sky, a poisonous creature hiding under a bush, a psycho who came out of the fog and took a knife out of his pocket? Just look carefully out the window overlooking the nearby streets or the whole big world - the window of the global network, sit in ambush and be each fully armed.” The stories collected in Tatyana Shcherbina’s book are devoted to topics that, at first glance, are far from each other: from memories of perestroika Russia to TV series and ancient Greek philosophy. However, they are connected by a common goal - an attempt to unravel the very passage of time, which inexorably follows from one catastrophe to another. The heroes of these stories are like mirrors in which you can see a variety of ways to live through difficult times. The author records the most important points in our common and personal history, either returning to memory several decades ago, or turning his gaze to the alarming present. Tatyana Shcherbina - poet, prose writer, essayist, journalist, translator, author of the books “0-0 (Zero-Zero)” (1991), “Life Without” (1997), “Escape of Meaning” (2008), “Personality Reproduction” ( 2010), “Chronicles” (2017).