The collection “Flor of Youth” includes stories about first feelings: unfamiliar, sharp, sweet and painful, leaving unhealed wounds for life. The heroine of the story “A Moon Came Out of the Fog” lives both in our world and in the Kingdom of Flaming Maple Trees, where men, on pain of death, are forbidden to say the words “I will never leave you, I will always be with you,” because they are subject to the death penalty... Story “The Third Shift” is about a premonition of love, about the empty promises of time, about an epiphany, about a first kiss that never happened. “The Island of Genius” is about the first name, last name, color and taste of sounds in the head of a little savant. “First Love” is about the border of worlds, about someone else’s love, about the sad cries of electric trains, about the desire to take away from another what you don’t need. “You won’t even notice!” - about the fact that it is dangerous to think that you can control the thoughts of other people... The story “The Mathematics of Seduction” is about the fact that from your actions another person will draw completely different conclusions than those you expected. When We Were Dead is about one survivor of a pair of newly deceased young fools who can fly. All the stories in the collection “Fleur of Youth” are about awakening to life, about discovering oneself, about the mental pain that makes us alive.