“Metro 2033” by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translations into dozens of languages, plus a grandiose computer game! This post-apocalyptic story inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the Metro Universe 2033, a series of books based on the famous novel. The heroes of these new stories will finally go beyond the Moscow metro. Their adventures on the surface of the Earth, almost destroyed by nuclear war, exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! What are they, fairy tales of 2033? About what? Who are their heroes? How much of them is fiction, and how much is the truth? Have the stories that parents tell their children at night in subway stations and underground bunkers, and adults tell each other, changed much? Or maybe fairy tales, even twenty years after the end of the world, remained the same, but people changed? Is a fairy tale once heard able to one day come true in a person’s life, and if so, how will it change it in this case? Participants in the third official short story competition of the metro2033.ru portal tried to answer this question. And a traditional bonus - an exclusive story from the editor-in-chief of “Universe” Vyacheslav Bakulin!(fable)(fable)(fable)