Superheroes for the Sad

Boy Vanya receives Captain Flash Forward's watch and escapes boring lessons to travel through time (unfortunately, only forward). Girl Zhenya dreams of Clark Kent's powers to bring order to her city. A philology student studying the language of the dead makes a living organizing celebrations and dreams of a better life. A "friendly neighbor" appears on the streets of the city, whose radical methods of fighting injustice frighten even those who dream of revenge.

Millennials, gather round!

"Superheroes for the Sad" is a collection of stories for adults whose childhood was in the nineties and early 2000s, and whose tumultuous youth was in the 2010s. Amid the noise of Marvel blockbusters, the series "Charmed," "Smallville," the movie "Brother," and cartoons about superheroes.

This is prose about us. About how the dreams of becoming a superhero or at least just a hero are replaced by the dream of paying off the mortgage as soon as possible, faith in miracles becomes office work, and the desire to change the world is shattered by everyday life. Take out the posters, rewind the tapes. Let's remember childhood to understand the present.