About the book: year / Vivid, memorable images, bizarre interweavings of fantasy and reality, extraordinary characters and situations, delightful panoramic descriptions of nature - you will find all this in the works of the aspiring St. Petersburg writer Anastasia Batalova. The collection includes a novella and several short stories. Youthful romanticism is combined in them with the desire for a deep understanding of life and the human soul. For a wide range of readers. “Thin Strings” is an honest and touching story of two close friends who had to go through a difficult ordeal - a love triangle. Sparkling emotionality, psychologism, kind humor and stunning sincerity of feelings. The mystical story “Phantom” poses questions, frank answers to which can change your life, unless, of course, you are afraid to ask yourself... Do you have unrealized plans? Or forbidden, secret desires, driven into the farthest corners of the subconscious? Sometimes they can do more than you think…