In shadows' embrace, where silence prevails,
A solemn dance with the Reaper unveiled,
Death, a companion to all in due time,
Inevitable fate, no reason nor rhyme.
The endless sea, broken into small drops, pours over my face. I feel every drop enveloping me like a gentle ghost, plunging into my madness. My thoughts are a bizarre dance of whirlwinds that never subside.
The whisper of old trees announced the approaching end, and the cold wind inexorably carried away tears from people's eyes. The peaceful radiance of the strong sun was already leaving this scorched earth, leaving it in the arms of desiccated despondency.
May 1942. In wartime, all kinds of manifestations of sincere, undisguised Feelings between representatives of two warring nations are completely inappropriate and even immoral.…
Will Hans and Polina be able to fully prove the opposite?..
Jobless, hopeless, and utterly adrift, a young man's plan to end it all is accidentally interrupted by a blackout and a cousin's offer of "free food" at a Navy screening. Suddenly, he finds himself in boot camp, where the only thing louder than the shouting is the silence of his own existential crisis.
Timor is a 23 year old guy thinking about who to become. A way of random events leads to a final decision, but aren't there any moments that can make him doubt his destiny?
Aruzhan woke to the sudden screech of the train braking somewhere in the endless steppe. The carriage smelled of stale alcohol and kurt. Outside, a true Kazakh blizzard raged, snow spinning wildly, as if the spirits of her ancestors were angry.
Why always me?! I don't want to lose myself and my personality because of other people's mistakes!
- So I see you've made up your mind? - asked the Interworlder.
- I... I have two options, and I don't like either of them, I can't choose! If it's a choice of two evils, I don't like either one... I will create the third option myself! Yes, selfish, but my whole life came about because of an egoist! Demiurge, I will become the CEO, I will take your place, BUT!..
A postmodern crossover of Psycho-Pass and Death Note with a complex face, generously sprinkled with book quotes and references to everything under the sun. A guide to what to do if you find yourself in the Library of Babel in the company of a completely different person than the one you hoped to get there with.
Harry Potter has gone crazy and considers you his enemy? Probably shouldn't have sent him to hateful relatives, deprived him of any communication with friends and let his summer go by itself. Especially after Cedric Diggory died before his eyes, and then Lord Voldemort rose from the dead.
The story of Harry, who couldn't sleep and got hooked on drugs, and his roof, already shaken by not the easiest life, went off, leaving behind a whole bunch of mental illnesses.
In a cursed village where girls vanish with poppies in their hair and the soil reeks of terror, dwells a princess too pale. Her mother hasn't been seen for years. When maddened villagers torch the castle, they don't realize: the true monster walks among them. A sickle glints in the dark, flames lick at the beams. Blood or ashes - it matters not. For salvation can be crueler than the curse.
Edgar Allan Poe ends The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym on a cliffhanger as Pym and Peters approach a chasm with the White Figure emerging in their path. Dozens of authors tried to imagine what happened next and I could not resist either.
Eurovision 2022. Turin, Italy. For Oleg Psyuk, the frontman of a Ukrainian band called «Kalush Orchestra», the Eurovision time is really the greatest temptation and Oleg is almost ready now to taste the forbidden fruit who personally for him is Valeria Sokolova, a young and very pretty Russian girl…
