Night. A blizzard is breaking out. The road skids and the car gets stuck. The convoy faces a dilemma: either, with a high degree of probability, everyone wil...

In a confusion of feelings, Vasily Karpovich, a completely non-drinker, approached the cupboard, thoughtfully looked at the bottles of selected alcoholic bev...

A small story-picture from Russian life that could have happened at any time in any corner of the country. Boundless (in the eternal, again, and not in the m...

Having come to have some fun in his favorite city, where he once served in the military and was not one of the last ladies’ men, successful businessman Vovan...

In the turbulent first half of the 90s, a young businessman and his driver, who lost each other by an absurd accident and were driving an expensive foreign c...

In a certain kingdom-state, there lived and did not grieve one noble, noble nobleman. And that nobleman was famous not only as great and important, but also ...

Tolyan was buried modestly. Much more modest than he could have imagined during his lifetime. Quietly, without the usual sad-ritual pomp among us, provincial...

In this collection of small but capacious stories, Victoria Tokareva reflects on eternal themes: love, fidelity, fortitude, the ability to forgive. The main ...

Mathias Malzieu is a popular French writer, musician and director, creator and lead singer of the rock band Dionysos, author of a dozen successful books, Kni...

“What is youth? An abyss of energy, a light body. We swallowed life in handfuls, and it seemed that around the corner a new, unknown happiness awaited us. Lo...

“Almost everyone will write about how they want to live their lives: so that their path is far and long, and cannot be turned back. And everything will be li...

Love is happy and unrequited...Love that languishes in the clutches of family life...Love that leads to betrayal and treason - and love that purifies the hum...