About the book: 2011 / The book includes two stories by Roman Senchin - "Minus" and "Forward and Up on Dead Batteries." Their hero - the author's namesake - is both a self-portrait and a self-parody: like a true realist, he writes about what he knows well. The action of "Minus" takes place in a small Siberian town, Roman works as an assembler in a theater. He carries heavy scenery, sleeps with actresses, drinks out of boredom in the evenings... and at night dreams of a distant capital. The hero of the story “Onward and Upward on Dead Batteries” already lives in Moscow, studies at the Literary Institute, has managed to get married and divorced, and is close to his goal - to become a famous writer. But for this you need to overcome despair and lack of money, work, write - and stretch upward, forward and upward…