The book of stories and short stories by Irina Muravyova includes both early and recently created works. They are all about love. About love for life, for loved ones, between a man and a woman, about love as a state of mind. And about the unfulfilled need for this feeling too. Deprivation of love makes a person defenseless against the horrors of the world, drives him crazy. The author captures the spiritual vibration of his characters with such amazing skill that we hear the beating of their pulse. And perhaps this is precisely what creates in the reader the feeling of a direct and burning touch to each text.