“The Lord of Thursday” is an addition to the five-volume work of the writer Igor Shestkov. The book is named after one of the stories - “The Lord of Thursday”. That was the name of one of the famous genies. My literary hero had the pleasure of meeting him during a difficult time in his life. What came of it - there is not a word about this in the story, but everyone can imagine anything. Almost all the texts included in “The Overlord” were written during a pandemic, that is, in spite of horror, depression, self-doubt, in one’s work, in everything, in spite of new forms of loneliness and despair. Despite the irritation currently reigning in society. Irritation, impatience, fear and all-destroying anger. I tried to contrast all this with the only living thing I could create. “How small are our disputes with life, how large is everything that is against us...”