A new novella and short story by Kirill Ryabov, in which each of the heroes gets a chance to come out victorious from a deadly fight with alcohol. “Getting Drunk” is a beautiful and bitter fairytale-novella about love, loneliness, and the limits of reason, with riddles and motifs of German romantics woven into an absurd, art-house atmosphere of the outskirts of Petersburg. In the mirrored antagonist story “Sober Up,” the main character, on the way to his beloved woman, will have to carry his vice—literally—on his shoulders.