The collection “City of Our Hopes” includes works published earlier. “Forget...” Someone thought he was a womanizer, but he didn’t think so, women just liked him. The emerging ability to influence people's memory made us think. What is this? Gift or punishment? How about applying to women? I would have lived like this, enjoying it, if not for His Majesty’s chance. “As a doctor, I must take care of people’s health, but I prefer not everyone, but women. Having sexual excess, I simply have to share it with women who experience sexual insufficiency.” “Take me with you” Loneliness does not threaten her. A chance meeting, it turns out, can cause a wave of feelings that she, if she has not forgotten, has not experienced for a long time, but wanted to. It’s easy to miss happiness, but to prevent this from happening, you need to go after it. “Fools, we women, fools. Sometimes we’re pining for a guy, not knowing him, we run after him, and when we receive him, we see that he’s just a nice candy wrapper, and you don’t know much else, but there’s something masculine in him that makes life happy.” “Confession of an Schemer.” She is successful and attractive. A chance meeting reminded her of the past, and she decided to take revenge, to do what failed then. “You need to see joy in the eyes of a loved one, even if you are not loved by him, to pacify your pain with his joy, the fact that he is alive and happy . My pain is my pain, and I wanted to give it to him. God knows, I didn’t want what happened.” “Victim or love story” The main character does not lack male attention, but meets her only man. Tragedy changes their lives, and she puts all of herself on the altar of her love to prolong the life of a loved one. “Do I feel sorry for myself? Yes. Sometimes. But I'm not complaining. I learned love, which is not given to every woman. I am not going to pass on my sins to anyone. But to the question about the possibility of living life differently, again, I would answer “No.” “Rain as an occasion” Meeting many years later. Is it random? And how much strength a person has in order to preserve his feelings and one day present love with a paid bill. “It is not necessary to remember a person always, something remains in the soul that we sometimes do not realize. It’s like a certain standard from the past into which we are trying to squeeze our loved ones, forgetting that they want to be themselves, and not who we want them to be.” “Hanging Coffee” Feelings that arose, a chance meeting, a random phrase about hanging coffee led to changes in the lives of the heroes. “I was listening to you,” he remarked he, - and the idea occurred to me that hanging coffee could be targeted.” “Bitches are people too” She is considered “Bitch,” but she views this as a compliment. She learned to live by her own rules, not to read fairy tales, but to write them herself in reality. But her outlook on life changes when she realizes that nothing feminine is alien to her. There is no need to take revenge on anyone. We must do it so that it is not the man who feels bad, but the woman who feels good.” “Your admiration does not flatter my pride. The admiration section is already full. If you thought I was the devil, you might have guessed that the devil wouldn’t sleep with just anyone.” “So what now?” There are no coincidences. His meeting with her was a foregone conclusion. He needed just such a woman: smart, independent, confident. Their short acquaintance put everything in its place. So what now? “What, have you signed up for the bachelors league? Don't even think about it. You will be removed from there and kicked out in disgrace. - Why else? - For non-payment of membership fees. You won't go to meetings there. You prefer the company of women.”