Before you is a collection of stories, short stories and miniatures, written at different times and in different places. Each story is a certain, albeit small, but mystical experience that I was lucky enough to acquire. This is very important to me, because these kinds of adventures always serve as a reminder to me of how much more complex the world around us is than our ideas about it. Sometimes, after decades have passed, I ask myself the question: did this really happen to me? It all looks really fantastic. Well... of course, all these stories are literary processed. But I tried to be as close as possible to the essence of the events described in this or that story, even if it was about a legend, as, say, in the story “Fire Worshipers.”