Farang. How I Spent the Summer

“Life is wonderful!!!” thought Viktor Egorov, a typical office plankton, as he headed to Turkey in the middle of the season to sign with his partner a minor contract and, hoping to finish quickly, spend the rest of the trip on the beach in the sun.

“Life is wonderful!!!” his soul sang, and his eyes were delighted by a very beautiful neighbor in the airplane…

And it would have been like that, if suddenly, caught in horrific turbulence, both of the Boeing’s engines hadn’t stalled and it hadn’t hurtled out of control toward the blue abyss…

They were lucky… The plane made an emergency landing in coastal waters of an unfamiliar island, and everyone managed to escape.

Well, what is it but a vacation—lie on white sand, sunbathe under a gentle sun, swim in warm sea water, and wait for the rescue services that will certainly come to save the Turkish charter within the next few hours. But how deep the surprise and horror of the survivors were when, after a scorching Mediterranean day, a cool evening arrived—and two moons rose in the sky, one blue, and the other…