The title for the collection was chosen for a reason. This is really a kind of report for the period from 2013 to 2018 - “a piece of life, equal to five years.” It was in 2013 that I began to write seriously, and during this time, ten stories, written in different periods, under different moods, were collected in the bins of the Motherland. The stories are arranged in chronological order, and, in theory, by reading them, you can track the evolution of the author, if, of course, there is one. It’s difficult for me to evaluate this myself, but you, from the outside, know better. The collection includes stories in a variety of settings. Here there was a place for LitRPG - or at least something similar to it, a zombie post-application - and in two, so to speak, forms at once, a classic post-apocalypse and an action movie timidly trying to pass off its scenery as science fiction. Some of the stories were published in collections, some remained online publications.