Tales from the Zone. Running Away from Oneself

Mishka Suvorovtsev was not a confrontational guy, in principle. Strong and quite confident, he did not seek out fights and scuffles. But they found him anyway. After falling out over a girl with a representative of the local southern diaspora, Mishka was forced to flee to the Zone. He thought that in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone he could hide from everything — from the world and from pursuers. However, it turned out that while one could hide in the Zone from the Big Land, hiding from oneself was impossible anywhere. He understood this only after a year, having changed two nicknames during his time beyond the Perimeter and acquiring a loyal friend and a trustworthy mentor.