“Reason: I learned to write from these stories. All of them were written since I was twenty-three. Some of it was inspired by the bandit nineties, some by the trash that our life was. Important! There are explicit 18+ scenes! Obscene language, explicit scenes, violence. I warned you! What comes next? Next there are more than fifty online stories written from the beginning of the zeros up to today. Each one is a small slice of life—one picture out of a billion stories from post-Soviet society. Just like a few “not-quite-letters” slipped into the book: hard and soft signs, and the “short i.” But not only that: fun, semi-real, and sometimes downright fantastic, hooligan-like pages—such turned out to be some of the stories in the collection. All these stories and sketches were posted on the internet on various literary platforms. I mixed them up a little, meaning they aren’t in the order they were written. Under each story you can find the year the text was born. They’re all written in one sitting… ”