Georgy Ball is a famous prose writer, the author of more than twenty books published by the publishing houses “Soviet Writer”, “Interfax”, “Children’s Literature”, etc. The stories that made up this book were published in the magazines “New World”, “UFO” ", "Banner", as well as in periodicals in France and the USA. The writer's work in the short story genre has been awarded several literary awards. In the work of G. Ball, the line between miracle and reality, between life and death is blurred. Everything that happens to his characters is both ordinary and strange - freedom suddenly turns into loneliness, the feeling of flight into a feeling of hopeless melancholy, despair into sudden catharsis.