Everyone can hear a story. We don't know where they come from or for whom, they just hover in the air above us. I hear them all the time, hear them and write them down, and it turns out to be a story. A story about people and events that I didn’t know, that I didn’t invent, that came on their own and sat next to me, as soon as I found myself in silence. Lean back in your chair, throw away the fuss and listen and listen as history picks up its irreversible course. Honestly about how easy it is to write stories if you don’t interfere with them. The cover design uses a photograph of Svetlana Chadova.