"His name was Matthew." Jack Pilsner has been an investigator for many years. He thought that he understood people, that he knew how to figure out the killer, but he could not predict who the boy who grew up next door would turn into. “The main battle.” A detachment of soldiers was given the order to knock out the enemy from a small town. The significance of the victory in this battle cannot be overestimated. Contains obscene language. “His Name Was Matthew” and “The Main Battle” are the second and third stories from the upcoming collection of socio-fiction stories “Evening Thoughts about Yesterday’s Tomorrow.”