In this book, the best stories of Denis Dragunsky from the collections “No Such Word” and “Bad Boy” are interspersed with new stories. The selection was made by the author himself and arranged in such a sequence that it is perceived as a single novel. A lady with a dog, a gentleman with a cat, writers and writers' wives, classmates from the site classmates.ga, unfortunate dear girls, academicians and graduate students... D. Dragunsky's texts are densely populated with a variety of heroes. In a tiny volume, with a minimum of words, it easily unfolds and unexpectedly ends the story of a long series. He ties a knot and, through the page, unties it. Transforms familiar plots and selects the most important thing from the eternal chaos of feelings...The collection of stories by Denis Dragunsky “There is no such word” was included in the top three best books according to “Proza-2009”, and the book “Bad Boy” was among the fifty best books of the year according to ““ Big Book 2010."