Anthology "Dark Alleys. Spring Songs — 2011"

DA No. 181. Albert GUMEOV — Wolves and Ravens
The Great Patriotic War is raging. SS-Obersturmbannführer Richard Riedl captures a Red Army scout who drives the SS officer to the edge of madness by showing no reaction whatsoever to his sophisticated torture…
Duration: 00:31:49
DA No. 182. Darya BULATNIKOVA — Angel Di, or I Love Death
Dimka swallowed water while swimming and would have drowned if not for a lifeguard who pulled him out in time. But the boy is haunted by a beautiful woman who appeared to him in a vision while he was unconscious…
Duration: 00:29:14
DA No. 183. Alexander PODOLSKY — Columbarium
One day the balloon that usually arrives at an island with a lighthouse — where a keeper and his dog live — did not come. From that evening on, the familiar rhythm of life on the island changed. And not only on that island, as it turned out…
Duration: 00:26:09
DA No. 184. Yulia ANDREEVA — Professor Cole's Dissertation
It is possible that in addition to parallel worlds there also exist so-called parasite worlds, which reproduce certain spaces. For instance, a hotel room that never existed before might suddenly appear — and physically could not exist. Is it a hallucination? A tall tale? Or something supernatural? A scientific investigation of this phenomenon forms the basis of the story.
Duration: 00:22:54
DA No. 185. Marina YASINSKAYA — The Seashell Effect
"Everyone has the right to freely choose their own appearance and the internal arrangement of their body, as well as the right to use cybernetic devices and artificial organs," states the Declaration of 2398. "From the first of March of the current year, all protein upgrades, including those performed for medical necessity, are completely prohibited," the President of the United Nations announces years later…
Duration: 00:19:33
DA No. 186. Alexander SEMYKIN — The Icarus Syndrome
One day the god of cunning persuaded the guardian god to watch over a certain mortal. The mortal turned out to be a scientist-inventor who had spent a quarter of a century obsessed with the theory that there was no crystal dome of the heavens with nailed-in stars. Year after year he builds flying models to test the theory in practice, and each time fails. And were it not for the guardian god, the "Icarus" would have met his end much sooner…
Duration: 00:23:15
DA No. 187. Vladimir MOLOTOV — The City of Childhood
One day, having drunk too much after a hard week at work, two friends — Vlad and Arkan — were heading home and on the way stepped into an abandoned building to relieve themselves. Before them in the wall was a door leading to the world of their childhood. Without a second thought they stepped across the threshold and found themselves in the city of childhood…
Duration: 00:26:12
DA No. 188. Alex BOR — Somewhere Out There, on the Outskirts…
"My home is somewhere out there, on the outskirts…" — these words still echo in my emptied soul. They are like a half-erased memory of something that never came to pass.
Duration: 00:20:50
DA No. 189. Evgenia KHAL, Ilya KHAL — The Confessor
To execute or to pardon. Only I can place the comma correctly in that phrase, because I am the ultimate truth, the judicial confessor…
Duration: 00:21:51
DA No. 190. Anna ODUVALOVA — Breathing Perfume and Mist
They met at a club on his birthday. As always it was dull and monotonous there, until she turned her attention to him. They were drawn together by a shared love of Blok's poetry, though not as much as he would have liked. Besides, she was very mysterious — even excessively so…
Duration: 00:29:26