The Crossing

Encounters and no encounters, attraction and repulsion, paired moments from life… The stories collected in the novella “The Straight Line” are bound by the theme of lies—more precisely, fiction. The heroines, whether it’s a teenage girl, a mother of a family, or an elderly literature teacher, professor, invent (or continue) their own lives, escaping ordinariness and predetermined fate—simply because it’s more interesting, more significant…

Contents:
1 Diana
2 Brother Yurочка
3 End of the plot
4 The Appearance of Nature
5 A Happy Accident
6 The Art of Living