In the story “Waiting at the Crossing,” after a suicide attempt, Alina finds herself in a place called the crossing, where she has to communicate with those who have just died, but have not yet realized it and therefore pose a threat to the established order of things and their loved ones. In the story “Moonlight, or Strange Events of One Day,” unusual things begin to happen to an ordinary girl, Julia, caused by a mysterious light from outer space. You can read these and other stories in the mystic genre in the collection “Waiting at the Crossing.”