Two stories by Polish prose writer, publicist and director Piotr Wojciechowski (1938). The first one is “Odessa, all the beaches.” A dissolute Pole wins a trip to Odessa on a TV quiz show, where a story happens to him that is very similar to the truth, as only happens with cleverly made-up stories. Translation by Ksenia Staroselskaya. The plot of the second story - “Send a photo, drop a few words” - is also unusual: a lonely pensioner is trying to renew his acquaintance with forgotten and half-forgotten people who once gave him their business cards. But here, too, the truth of artistic fiction takes its toll. Translation by Olga Chekhova.