Here are collected more than 80 stories that happened to me and other people in a variety of years. Inexplicably, there were as many stories as the author of this book is turning years old. None of them are made up. I would like you to read not in one gulp, not one after another, but gradually. Maybe one a day. I lived a life as a writer without writing a single story. He published books, sometimes large ones. They, too, strictly speaking, cannot be called either novels or stories. Reality and authenticity are always more valuable to me than any fantasy. These stories have lived with me for decades. I saw them the way one sees movies. Sometimes he told me how he would try them on other people. These stories are presented here in the same order as they were written down. Now what life has given me becomes part of your experience. V. Fainberg