Eleven texts. Two stories, nine short stories. Phantasmagoria and grotesque. Complexity in simplicity. When we were young. Turning back fifteen years. Evidence of the past. False memory. The story “Mudodrom” An emergency occurred in a small Russian city - a falling fireball cut through the night sky. Not a single person died in the fall, but the incident changed the lives of all the townspeople. The story “Minus” An unsuccessful middle-aged writer, who cannot erase his wife who disappeared many years ago from his memory, encounters mysticism in the neighborhood, unravels his own past and finds himself involved in events that turn his life upside down.