After the 24th

"I'm sorry, but the war has begun."

February 24 began with such words for the writer Vladyslav Ivchenko. The day life changed forever. Already in line to the military commissariat, he realized what he had

now has its own story about the beginning of the war. "My grandmother had one, my parents didn't have it, and I was sure that I wouldn't have it either."

"After the 24th" is a collection of short stories and rhythmic prose about the war, a record of what we have experienced and are experiencing now. About those who are ready to die for freedom and those who are ready to survive at any cost, about lovers and lovers, about losses so bitter that you want to howl in pain, and about laughter that keeps you healthy

sensible About betrayal and fear, about those who are in the rear and those who are at the front. Something is taken from life, something is invented. I warn you: very often what will seem to you to be a real story will turn out to be fiction, and vice versa. The author is not trying to reflect on everything that is happening now, or to give answers to all the questions that arose after the 24th, because, after all, this is impossible in our time. Despite this, literature is still a reliable way to talk and tame our fears, as well as replenish the reserves of hatred that we will still need to win.

Vladislav Ivchenko is a writer, the author of the novel "2014", a collection of short stories

"Memory Games" and the series about the adventures of the best detective Ivan Karpovych Pidiprigora.