=========================================
music: BOOM I MUSIC ANT P.
by: ANDREW SENDETSKI ASC
(c) Evgeniy Borisov.
Staritsa.
Wild honey.
Angel.
Angel, my dear, once again
THANK YOU for the idea.
ZX.
Sin entered the control room. Everything was like there
Usually. The displays glowed with system diagrams
ship and columns of numbers. An experienced look
Sina habitually appreciated this picture - everything would be...
lo is ok.
Chair in the center of the semicircular console
turned to him.
“Everything is all right,” reported the beaming
chair. - All ship systems are working
ok. During the watch no incidents occurred.
processions. I passed my watch.
“I have accepted my watch,” said Sin and stepped
to the remote control.
The officialdom was over and now
the pilots could speak easily.
- How long until Roy, Yull? - asked
Syn.
“Three million,” answered the person who passed the test.
that pilot and gave up the seat to a replacement. - Che-
after 15 o'clock you need to start braking, and
then we’ll fly into Roy at full speed.
Fly into the Swarm at full speed
There was only one thing in mind: the certain death of the ship.
Sin glanced at the radar screen. He Was
looks like a riddled target, which
fired from several barrels at once
nal calibers. On the last flight, the localization screen
tora began to look like only two million
newkilometers. The swarm is expanding. This is good
sho: density decreases, increases
chances to return. O, however, I don’t know this at all.
Read that it will be easy there. Now locator
catches bodies larger than five kilometers -
ditch In a day the screen will become almost solid
a flickering field of multi-colored spots.
And in a few more hours it will be necessary
maneuver to get out of the way
our red ones from these spots. This is where it begins
THERE IS NO REAL JOB FOR PILOTS. From
computer will be of very little use, it
He’ll just start lying, unable to cope with the problem.
a flood of information. Pilots Will Be
change every three hours, and during the shift
you from them - from him, Yulla and five more people
- It will be seven sweats. Others too
It won't be any easier. It will be necessary to constantly
shatter from debris that can
collapse from any side. And under this non-
burst bombing is necessary. It will be suitable
you go to the station flying among this chaos,
remove people from it, then valuable equipment
and, as far as possible, fill
hold materials. And again it will be hellish
labor for the pilots to remove the heavy co-
RaBl from Roy.
And if there is no one at the station
alive, everything is the same with that only difference
Tse, what will be needed from each dead man
take several samples for the gene pool
- A bank of genetic material that
is in Krasnaya orbit.Same thing
it was necessary to do with every remnant of what
that once lived, grew, ran, swam
or flew, if they meet on the way
tee. And we met. In the outer part of Roy
came across debris with forest, grass,
rocks of the seabed and even the dead
cities...
Sin remembered photographs of one of the
Lomkov. On its surface stood a city.
The city in which he lived before the Holocaust. On
in one of the photos he recognized his house... Habcer-
Yes, a lost house. All people have lost their
home, your planet. Now it's Roy.
- Okay, Yull. I'll tell Brin he
after me.
Yull nodded and headed towards the door.
- Come back, Sin, We'll wait, -
he said opening the door.
“You won’t wait long,” answered Sin.
to the pilots' customary wish of good luck.
The door closed.
Sin was left alone with space.
In eight hours he will wish you luck
Brin, who will start braking. Build-
li, engineers, doctors - everyone who has to
work at the station, they won't notice it.
Brin will start the thrusters. Usko-
the spirit they develop is insignificant, but for 36
hours of continuous work they will reduce the speed
The height of the ship is from sixteen kilometers to
second to one. This speed is sufficient
to get away from even the largest ob-
brittle, and not too high, so as not to
be able to dodge even the Fastest. AND,from the beginning of maneuvers between the wreckage to the stop-
forgings with the station, everyone will sit
tagged to the chairs. Low thrust for flight
not suitable for Roy. High thrust engines
They will throw the ship from side to side
well, and walk around Running away all the time
from under your feet the floor will be very uncomfortable.
ESPECIALLY in the depths of the Swarm. But thank God
flights deep into the Swarm will soon stop. B
On the last voyage of the ship, Sina was chasing a
which plunged into the thick of automatic observation
vatory. She was pushed entirely into the hold and
taken outside. Now the matter is more serious -
orbital station.
Sin looked at the indicator. Signal
The station's beacon has not yet been heard. Far away, yes
Debris is in the way.
What is it like for the people at the station now? All around
aboutDebris. From huge to very tiny.
They move, collide, split up,
fly to a station surrounded by a force field
tion, and from such a kick it flies as if
the ball until it collides with another piece of debris.
And fear. Constant fear of being caught between
two colliding fragments or what
Somewhat small but very fast
the stone will pierce the force field. Then - co-
Nec. At best, we will find a leaky one
A barrel full of dead people. At worst - nothing
th. All that's left from the station is smoke, yeah
perhaps also a crater on the surface of the ob-
withdrawal
There were only such stations in the depths of Roy
two. One has already been taken out of this hell andon-
walks on the way to Krasnaya. Same thing Bu-
children with this one too. First they will be evacuated
people and valuable equipment removed. How
As soon as the ship leaves the Swarm, we dive into it
tugs and will pull out the station itself
tion... Now you can't throw anything. Take
There will be nowhere. And it’s still impossible to do that either.
We need to collect what's left.
What's left...
Here is the result of intoxication with success.
There was a civilization - and now those who remain
They gathered and collected what was left.
It all started with the decision to colonize
BlueBoy. It has long been known that this
the third planet from the Sun is suitable for life
no people. And the implementation of these plans is
there was a shortage of fuel for transport
SHIP. Scientists got involved and
after some time a solution was found
but... As a result of their hard work, the light
two devices appeared that made
revolution in interplanetary transportation
cargo. The first of them, called "convert-
terom", transformed the hidden energy of simple
in more convenient to use forms
we. The second, “gravitator”, powered by
Anything could happen with the first energy
do things with the force of attraction: weaken,
amplify, change sign, direct a beam,
turn into an elastic, impenetrable wall.
Based on these devices, it was decided to post-
to build a global transport system that
the second oneaccording to calculations, will allow quickly
and it is convenient to send cargo into space and receive
their mother is from there. Just as fast and convenient
These cargoes can be moved to any
point of the planet. And the loads are considerable - in the dozens
and hundreds of thousands of tons.
Sin perfectly remembered the landing and take-off
of his then ship with the help of one
from the first nodes of the system. As soon as
The rocket ended up in a given sector of the orbit,
it was as if he had been caught by strong but dangerous
horny hands. With these "hands" the ship was
lowered to the cosmodrome directly in the designated area
his sector. Ship engines fucking all this
were silent for a while. A few days later this
same ship with a full load, also not
without spending a drop of fuel, was raised from
surface and brought to an almost exact course
to Red at the required speed.
That was great! It was so
It’s great that few people heard it back then
then he did not heed the warning of the small one
groups of gravisfer scientists.
Now everyone knows that the gravitational field
research of cosmic bodies is a complex structure
system. At the center of any gravisphere there is
the core is laid down - a very complex volumetric multi-
tiered interweaving of power lines. It
has the shape of a spherical polyhedron and
dimensions are slightly larger than the planet itself.
The rest of the gravisphere is sticking out
tentacle lines extending from the core in all directions.
They can bend in any way they want, weave...into various education. That's all
The operating principle of the gravitator has been new. Gra-
the vispheral core is a rigid structure and
very fragile. When they acted separately
transport network nodes, graphics distortion
vispheral core Were insignificant, permissible
mine. But when the transport system Was
built and launched at full capacity, structure-
ra of the upper tier of the gravispheral core Was
broken. The collapse began. First the impulse
negative gravity threw away from Pla-
no, everything that was in orbit. Then,
as the gravispheral core disintegrates, from Pla-
layer by layer they began to be thrown off
boxes. And the planetary pressure devoid of them
the core exploded.
The planet became a Swarm.
The strength of the first impulse was not everywhere
identical, and several orbital objects
comrade Were overtaken by an expanding swarm
before they could pick them up...
There was nothing left for the remaining people
another way to continue the colonization of Golu-
Fight. But soon we must collect everything that remains
elk...
“We’re coming back,” the leader said.
"Heavenly Angels"
This is how orbital construction was jokingly called
tel for more skillful flying Handling deftly
rocket packs, and for the very type of workers
spacesuits. Four rods with microblocks
motors in working position resemble
or wings spread in flight.
Sin along with other free from
watchespilots were in the "hallway" of the
Red gateway at the disposal of the Biologist. Biologist
was worried, constantly contacted the laboratory
toria, where his assistants prepared all the non-
REQUIRED FOR PROCESSING "trophies". Coman-
Dir, as always, was calm. He and
everyone looked at the screen without looking away. Seven
small figures in working spacesuits
got together and after a few seconds
smoothly lining up in a chain we moved towards
SHIP. The ship "hung" two hundred meters away
above the dead forest on the surface of the fragment,
which was discovered by the pilot on duty.
Calmly and confidently the “angels” are approaching
walked towards the open gates of the airlock and did the same
calmly, Without unnecessary movements, flew into
Board of the ship. A few meters before the gate
their “wings” folded on their backs.
Two minutes through the inner gate
the locks opened. The builders laid it on the floor
all the trophies and heavily waddling trace-
They took me to the outfitting room. Even with reduced
three times the weight is difficult for a person to carry
WEARING A WORKING SUIT. As soon as you master
The gateway was butted, the Biologist attacked the trophies.
The bags left by the builders were full
cutouts from the trunk, branches with pine needles and belly
big lumps the size of a fist. And also among
There was a ridge with a hollow of bags.
“Just look,” he admired
The biologist shows everyone the already frosty
bump. - This is a cedar pine! B genophone-
where she's not there yet. We are her firstfound... Well, ah
here...
The biologist jumped up to the ridge and looked into
hollow
“Honeycombs,” he said thoroughly,
looking at what's there. - Honeycombs of wild bees. With me-
house
He put his hand into the hollow.
- Everything is frozen. Like a stone.
The biologist stood up and looked around at the
fairies."
- To the laboratory. - ordered the Biologist.
Sin and Yull volunteered to drag the ridge. Nes-
looking at the lowered sleeves (about gloves
no one thought) a piece of the trunk was freezing the hand
ki.
“I LOVE honey,” Yull said after-
after they almost dropped the burden
stepping into the corridor, where the heaviness was normal
small
“I love you too,” Sin answered. - Only-
but we are unlikely to find another hollow with
bees.
- Nothing, nothing. There will still be honey. -
encouraged the Biologist walking next to him and carrying
one of the bags. - There’s probably some in the honeycombs
bee larvae And since there are larvae, there will be
bees and honey.
- If only bees can live on Go-
LuBoy. - said Yull.
- I hope they can. - answered Bio-
log. - Life adapts to such conditions -
Loviy, which is scary to even think about.
“I hope so too,” he said.
Sin...
And there were many reasons for hope. To mo-
ment of the disaster on Krasnaya were built
two domed cities, more than a dozen domed
full villages and many more stations
on the surface and in orbit with the general population
about a million people.Ibid on
Red managed to create several nodes
gravity transport system. And also
There was a Base on the GoluBoy satellite and a station on
its orbit...
In the meantime, we need to collect everything that remains -
elk...
An hour later the ship with evacuees from
station people left Roy and headed for
Red.
10.01.97 - 24.01.97
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(c)Roman Savchenko.
Pzhev
SUNSET
=====
Sunset. If you look at the setting
The sun is from here, from this huge hill,
towering above the blue-green bulk
forests, it might seem that on the ground
some terrible cataclysm is coming. All
the area around was gradually flooded with wild Crimson
glow. The sky, the earth, the forest - everything seemed
burning in an all-consuming flame.
I loved the sunset, although if it
look for an extra few minutes, in
a gloomy thing began to arise, not fully realized
called by the mind, a feeling of ending. And although I already
got used to the fact that at the end of summer here
such sunsets, I still couldn’t overcome it
this feeling.
I moved to these places about five years ago.
back. I used to work in a nature reserve at
the other end of our “immense”, and here is one
one day my friends and I decided to go to these
places onhunting. And when we returned, I
I realized that I can’t live without these places
I don't want to. Since then I started working
here. Huge forests and not a soul around the city
one hundred and fifty meters. Strange property
I understood your local sunsets only towards the end
my first year of living in these places...
And now... The cigarette burns out and
I corrected my wine without turning to the west.
a tow, threw the young carcass more comfortably
deer and moved east. The day is ending
and there are still five or six kilometers to the house.
***
- Considering the specifics of the structure, I think
WHAT YOU NEED TO CHOOSE A CCO21E system. Total
nine planets and besides I have already discovered
an excellent planet for a resident epicentre
ra compression.
- Fine. What about intelligent life?
- On this planet there is just some kind of
race. But they are at such a level of development that
we shouldn't even pay attention to them
nia. Besides, we are too big
Problems to take into account such a trifle
com, like a herd of Aboriginals.
- Well, great. Give me the documentation... I
I agree with the committee.
Strange creatures exchanged some
objects and dispersed in different directions
sides of a huge spacecraft,
hovering near a small planetary
systems.
And a few hours from the ship
separated medium sized metal
the ball began to driftto the side blue
planets.
***
...Six days ago in my sector for-
A rather large meteorite fell to the commander.
And now there is no passage in the forest from all sorts of
there are scientists from delegations and the press. In my house
three scientists who were engaged in this
PROBLEM.
Today I returned from hunting quite
late and when I opened the door, the first thing
what I saw was a laid table, two bottles
ki and the stranger sitting in my chair and
talking to scientists.
- I'm saying it's impossible to call him -
you can! It's made of some strange alloy and
You can’t reach it with ultrasound. - proved
to a stranger Valery Alekseevich is one of
my guests.
- Yeah... Exactly. And don't cut it. You
They promised to send a laser. Or what? B
institute, it looks like a bunch of complete idiots have gathered
you... I sent the request two days ago...
- Calm down! You will also have a laser
and everything you need. We have to wait!
- Wait... Ha! By the way, re-
the results of preliminary studies on
show that inside there is nothing more than movement
chewing mechanism! Yes, yes! From the object
It's quite a powerful and rhythmic vibration!
What if when we wait it will be too late?
but?..
- Oops! Hello Alexey! you today
We're late! And here we are chatting. -Va-
Leria winked at me when I glanced sideways
on the finished Bottle standing on the floor
"wheat". -meet our guide and
head - Alexey Lvovich. The forestry works
com in this wild land, and this wonderful
five-star hotel - his own
ness.
The stranger extended his hand.
- And I am the namesake of this joker - Valery
Petrovich. I work at the same institute as him.
Do you mind if I visit you today?
I smell it. Otherwise I’m too lazy to drag myself to the camp.
- Yes, of course... Make yourself at home. -
I mumbled. I was already starting to miss
the loneliness in which I lived and which
used to drive me crazy.
- That's great! Join us
to our table...
***
...In the camp everyone was already asleep when the weather
orite lying in a healthy crater of steel
some transformations are taking place. From
Four powerful paws extended from the sides - under
stakes that raised him to heights,
somewhere, a meter. From the bottom of the buzzing
a powerful drill fell. And huge, sparkling in
in the moonlight the ball became like a spider with
a long sting, ready to pierce the victim.
The drill started spinning and the first clods of earth
flew in all directions, rustling and crushing
grass A few seconds later the ball disappeared
in the hole.
***
...- He's gone!!!
- Who is not there, - sleepy and still a little muddy -
"after yesterday" Valera stared at
the forwarding officer who ran in without knocking
tions.
- Ball! This damn meteorite has disappeared!
-Come on... I'm not in the mood for jokes right now...
Seriously?
- I look like an idiot with a stock of flats
jokes?
- Hmm... Well, what happened there?
- There's a mine in the middle of the crater.
down. Looks like he's buried himself or something. DEPTH
huge, and then the mine goes sideways, well
further, for obvious reasons, we did not go further
or our equipment.
- We urgently need to go to the place. Rise!
- he pushed aside two of his acquaintances, and I
I haven't slept for a long time. - the unexpected happened
day!
Everything exactly corresponded to the description
sylnogo. There was a few meters around
the ground is scattered. The shaft has a diameter of exactly
the meteorite lying in the crater went deep
Sideways into the bowels of the earth.
- I think I said that maybe
late! Where was your damn laser?
Everyone sat down in amazement on the edge of the wells.
tsa.
- Everything is gone... This damn meteorite
disappeared. We can't get it.
- How did he do it, interesting -
but...
- Well, what will we do next?.. I you-
blew out a cloud of smoke from another cigarette and
I remembered the sunset...
***
...- The device has been installed. If you start to dis-
dusting immediately, then after an hour primary
planetary system will be destroyed, launch-
tim compression mechanism and after thirty
hours we will create a sufficiently large plan-
no room for check-in.
- How long will it take to create
giving atmosphere?
- Nearseven o'clock.
- Great. I think all conditions are acceptable.
Get started...
06/18/99.
music: BOOM I MUSIC ANT P.
by: ANDREW SENDETSKI ASC
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(c) Evgeny Borisov.
Staritsa.
That's all...
The door opened, as it always did.
yes, when he entered the apartment. As always-
yes, first the outside, then the inside. For
double entrance door - long brown
door-hallway, from which they led to the rooms
doors with locks much better than the ones at the entrance -
noy: typical communal apartment. He immediately felt
he said, as all the air fell on him
corridor, completely saturated with bedbugs,
dusty old stuff, kitchen stuff and evil gossip.
He takes long strides, as if afraid of suffocating
in this frenzy, he walked to his door, unlocked
lock and sliding inside to quickly close
dug the door behind him. Here he is at his home.
You can breathe more freely... And the window is open-
need to dig.
Behind a thin wall in the corridor, then on
there's a fuss in the kitchen again, the clanking of dishes, Good
mat. And not the Good One either... Again two kumus-
the neighbors barked over a trifle.
Alone again, the one that chatters like a magpie,
I didn’t use my frying pan, but another
gay, the one who responds to her falsely
howling like a canary, she salted something that wasn’t herssalt... God, how tired of all this!.. Poo-
root for about fifteen minutes, they will stop, and after
in an hour or two they will take someone else’s again. On purpose
after all, they will take it so that they can yell out loud again
will And when they’re not yelling, they’re whispering, aha-
yut in every possible way upon hearing the “amazing” but-
vost. Of course they have him, a weakling, a mattress and
The last fool is a “philosopher”, in a word.
All others are hooligans, bandits, scarecrows
gardeners are also fools...
How disgusting all this is. How disgusting... And
They call this "cultural entertainment"
evening." And so it always is. More precisely, almost always
yes. When an electrician comes home from work,
gray from the room opposite, chatter in the kitchen-
does not immediately fall silent. Peacham electrician
he just opens the front door, and
they can already smell the flies... They respect the electrician. He
authority for them. Well, yes! Height meter
ninety, broad-shouldered, wiry with a
with howling fists and a tinned throat.
When the electrician had just moved in,
the gossips were still chattering in front of him, but already completely
voices, gossiping, talking over each other
ke bones. But it lasted until
until one day he smashed his fist into a hundred
Lu, which made all the pots in the kitchen jump -
zeros, and did not rattle under the rattling of glass in
window: “Come on, be quiet!” And it became quiet. And with tkh
Since then it has always been quiet if he is at home.
And the electrician turned out to be a good person.
He was above all this mouse fuss, above
allthese squabbles, evil gossip and caustic
talking shops All this fell apart about his gr-
thread hardness. And the gossips consider it
... Perhaps this is the only thing they consider
lurked. When did the electrician stay with him?
one on one, then threw off the granite
new Bulletproof vest and became the same as
he is a visionary and a dreamer. And for a long time they
often late into the night, we talked. It Was
like a breath of oxygen in a complete frenzy,
like a sip of water in the desert. Lead fell
great heaviness from the soul, the disgusting
a dregs of bitterness and hopeless melancholy. Ho- again
I wanted to live, dream, create.
However, recently even these
the meetings did not bring the relief that
before...
He stood for a moment in front of the window, then
returned to the door and closed it with the latch.
I didn't want to see anyone. Nobody... Here
So I wish I could close myself off from everything and lie down, le-
sit on the sofa in a quiet room and dream,
until you get tired of it.
He lay down on the sofa.
In the window, light cirrus formations were visible
LOCATION AND BRIGHT BLUE SKY. "And what's under this
Sky and Blocks? Probably the sea." - think
he is small.
And he imagined how somewhere below
horseman on a blue background, as if on a leaf
The paper begins to be drawn on the surface
water content. Line after line appears
outlines of small waves that go to
the horizon is getting smaller and smaller,
until they disappear into the distance. On the waves, likestrokes of paint, bright highlights, semi-
afternoon sun... No, not that. Not half-
day... Dawn. Let there be dawn. NeBo
It’s still dark, but the horizon is burning with might and main
morning dawn. Her golden reflections are falling
to the water. On the still dark, almost black,
duh... The resulting landscape begins to bloom
chill. At first it resembles a child's r...
sunok, but with every second everything becomes clearer
details are being worked out, and in his imagination-
the picture turned out to be as if it had come out
from under the brush of Aivazovsky. Leave it like this?
No, we need to finish... The process continues-
Xia. Soon Aivazovsky’s painting turned into
fits into a photograph... Or maybe into a frame
movie?.. Yes, that's right! That's right! Frozen-
Great still from the movie. Now operator
presses the button and... The sea came to life.
This is beauty! It took my breath away.
The leaden heaviness in my soul has disappeared... Te-
let's breathe in fresh air for complete
happiness. He got up from the sofa and walked over to the window.
well. Closing his eyes, he turned his face to the current
to the breeze through the window, exhaled in one gulp and began
inhale slowly listening to the sensation
yum...
He shuddered. Something was wrong. Voz-
the spirit was too fresh for the city and in it
smells not typical of the city were in the air. He opened
rolled his eyes, leaned out of the window and froze
so...
There was a sea outside the window. It splashed
three floors below. Darkness, almost black,
waterreflected the bright koser of the morning dawn,
shining on the horizon directly opposite the window.
He jumped back in fright. It Was
the same sea that he just blew out
small This scared him. "It can't be...
I'm crazy..." - they started spinning in my head
uncontrollable thoughts.
The sea began to turn pale, melt away like
fog. The dawn was dimming. The dark woman turned pale
yes. Through them hundreds of
seen once and bored just as many times
city landscape. And when the sea was left
only pale, barely noticeable lines, fear in
it was replaced by a burning, painful desire.
"No! No!! Let it be!!" He rushed towards
the window and grabbed the window sill with his hands.
"Let there be a sea!" He closed his eyes and
Rav in his fist all the power of will began to re-
poke the sea in your imagination...
The gossip, the one who always grabbed something
chewing a frying pan, knocked on the door of his room
naty. Again the philosopher began to daydream, slowed down,
it needs to be sewn.
- Philosopher, borrow some matches. There is no gas
light it up,” she crackled with her sharp voice
chemical voice.
No answer.
She knocked again.
- Hey! Did you fall asleep there or something?
No answer.
“He’s sleeping,” she said and went away.
kitchen.
He repeated the whole process again. First-
la lines, then paint. Again a picture from
a child's drawing turned into a movie frame
film. The operator pressed the button and the picture
came to life. Now you canopen your eyes, but he
didn't dare. What if everything just fades away for him?
was silent and, opening his eyes, he would only see
gray dusty city outside the window?
He opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
nim. The sea splashed outside the window.
He leaned out of the window. water surface
lay three floors below and the wall of the house did not
touched her. She seemed to dissolve in
air without reaching any water
meters. He looked around, turned
I looked up. This is true. No corners
no house, no roof. Piece hanging in the air
walls with several windows and melting edges -
mi... Amazing... Why not?
He looked at the sea and whistled from
surprise. He didn't make this up. By sea
there was a decent sized ship with a high
superstructure in the front and extensive
smooth deck immediately behind her. SHIP NAP-
pointed in his direction...
In twenty minutes the gossip will return -
las.
“Philosopher,” she cried from Baraba.
niv at the door. - Are there any matches?
There is silence outside the door again.
The gossip shrugged her shoulders and set off again.
ran into the kitchen. “I fell asleep,” I thought
she. “Like a gopher in winter.”
The ship slowed down and turned around
Tom to the wall. On the smooth deck he saw
people dressed like at a carnival. They hi-
they waved at him and shouted something, but he
I couldn't hear them yet.
And then he noticed that the ship continuedwants to fight. SIDE FORWARD SHIP
was approaching the wall. To him... Someone is wearing
dressed in the clothes of d'Artagnan's time, clearly his
Converting, he ran up onto the bridge next to
chopping...
The electrician came. Gossip, here again
went to ask for matches, knocked on the door
and when we see the electrician, she said:
- Your philo-friend is fast asleep.
zof. I can’t reach you for an hour now.
- Let the man sleep, - answered
It was as if the electrician had dropped a weight on the floor. Kumush-
ka immediately darted into the kitchen.
The bridge turned out to be higher than the window. Board the ship
Lya froze a meter from the wall. "D'Artagnan"
smiled warmly at him and waved his hand
inviting you on board. He looked at the deck.
People stood huddled near the Near Side and
They also invited him to their place. He looked at
their painted faces without masks, caught
a few glances and realized that they were all
visionaries and visionaries like himself.
He turned back and looked at his room.
natu. What kept him here? Gossips?
Boring job? Consider it your home
no. There is no favorite girl either. There is a friend
electrician... He will understand him and will not judge him,
because he knows his cherished dreams.
He turned to D'Artagnan. Let
the electrician will see this sea and him on this co-
RaBlais. "D'Artagnan" nodded affirmatively.
A ladder rose from the deck to the window. He opened
dug the window sashes wide open, climbed onto the window sill
nicknameand felt the first step with his foot. A
then he suddenly found himself on deck among
carnival costumes. According to those who study it
looking at him, he realized that it didn’t bother him either
dress up. But where can I get a suit? The answer is he
I immediately respected the looks. He closed his eyes
I drew a picture in my mind of how I would like to look
and when the image is completely ready, click
zeroed with his fingers. Applause rang out around him.
disments. He opened his eyes. Someone brought it
him a mirror. He saw exactly how
I drew it in my thoughts. cowboy hat,
plaid shirt, scarf around the neck, holster with
water pistol on a belt. From under the hat
a fiery red wig peeks out, a ball nose
sticks out in front of a clown-painted face
big, wide clown pants deliberately bright
stylized as jeans, with clown legs
Boots: a sort of clown cowboy. Everything is as it is
he wanted...
Then he remembered what was in his pocket
the key to the room, now he doesn’t need it at all
ny. The key ended up in the clown's pocket
pants He glanced towards the wall. Co-
Rabel had already moved quite far away from her.
Don’t finish it... But, by the way, why is that?
You just need to imagine. And he imagines
I saw how the key he threw flew into the window
his room, falls on the table and clangs
on it: “Mo-re in the window.” He found everything
the window is already decently pale and transparent
against the wall, took aim and threw...
- Your friend has been sleeping for a long timephilo-
“zof,” said the gossip to the electrician through
half an hour when they collided again at
doors.
“Yes indeed,” he agreed.
The electrician pushed aside the gossip and knocked himself.
No answer. Silence. Electrician
sat down by the door and looked through the keyhole.
- Well, what is he there? - the gossip began to cry -
ka. - I have nothing to light the gas with!
The electrician looked away from the keyhole
us.
“It looks like he’s not there,” he said. - And
For some reason the window is...
Window!!!
The electrician jumped up and hit the door of his
their mighty shoulder. The thin latch is not
resisted, the door swung open. Electrician
burst inside. The gossip is behind him.
- O-o-o-a-a-o-oh!! - she screamed
seeing an open window. - Philosopher through the window
I'll jump out!
And she rushed off into the corridor to report the news.
the whole apartment.
The electrician jumped to the window and wanted to
look down at your dead friend,
the fifth floor after all, when suddenly he passed
something broke on the head, fell on the table and
tinkled. “Mo-re in the window”: it seemed to him
in this ringing. He turned around. Lying on the table
the key to this room.
"The sea is in the window. The sea is in the window" - circle
The sound of a fallen key echoed in his head.
Sea... In the window... Sea in the window. The sea is ok
no!
He turned to the window and began to draw
sea in your imagination. He barely spent
horizon line, as the duck flashed above him
early dawn...
HeI saw how the wall had melted away
became dense again. But not all, but only
A small part of it around the window of his room -
you. And in this wide open window he
I saw an electrician. He ran to the edge of the deck
I would have waved to my friend. He saw
business, found out, waved in response, shouted something -
zero to him. He didn't hear, It was far away, but
realized that his friend wished him a good trip.
As a sign that the friend was heard, he took out
water pistol and poured into the air. Above
ship the fiery dandelion bloomed salu-
ta.
The wall suddenly disappeared. He felt
warmth on his back and turned around. Over the sea
seemed like the edge of the sun.
The electrician took a look just in case.
down. There was no one on the sidewalk under the window
lo. He sighed in relief and became closed.
open the window.
At that moment they burst into the room
residents of the communal apartment, led by the gossip-co-
rocky.
- Where? Where is he? - they started talking
they. - Let me see... Probably to death
crashed...
“He’s not there,” he said harshly and weightily.
the electrician closed the window and deliberately rang
Ko, with force, snapped the latches.
- How is it not?! - the gossip was indignant -
ka. - I myself saw how he went down -
zero!
- Well, run downstairs and look, es-
Have you seen it?
The electrician slammed the doors of the second frame
and again clicked the bolts with force. For-
then he stepped to the table, took the key andstarted
push those rushing towards the window towards the door.
A few seconds later, the magpie co-
I figured it would be easier to run downstairs than this
it took an hour to get to the window, and she rushed to the first
exit. The others rushed after her.
- He’s not downstairs! - shouted after them
electrician and quietly added. - He is where
I have been striving for a long time... Happy.
And the ship with a carnival on board
Time picked up speed, heading straight towards
rising sun.
==========================================================
=========================================
=========================================
music: BOOM I MUSIC ANT P.
by: ANDREW SENDETSKI ASC
(c) Evgeniy Borisov.
Staritsa.
Wild honey.
Angel.
Angel, my dear, once again
THANK YOU for the idea.
ZX.
Sin entered the control room. Everything was like there
Usually. The displays glowed with system diagrams
ship and columns of numbers. An experienced look
Sina habitually appreciated this picture - everything would be...
lo is ok.
Chair in the center of the semicircular console
turned to him.
“Everything is all right,” reported the beaming
chair. - All ship systems are working
ok. During the watch no incidents occurred.
processions. I passed my watch.
“I have accepted my watch,” said Sin and stepped
to the remote control.
The officialdom was over and now
the pilots could speak easily.
- How long until Roy, Yull? - asked
Syn.
“Three million,” answered the person who passed the test.
that pilot and gave up the seat to a replacement. - Che-
after 15 o'clock you need to start braking, and
then we’ll fly into Roy at full speed.
Fly into the Swarm at full speed
There was only one thing in mind: the certain death of the ship.
Sin glanced at the radar screen. He Was
looks like a riddled target, which
fired from several barrels at once
nal calibers. On the last flight, the localization screen
tora began to look like only two million
newkilometers. The swarm is expanding. This is good
sho: density decreases, increases
chances to return. O, however, I don’t know this at all.
Read that it will be easy there. Now locator
catches bodies larger than five kilometers -
ditch In a day the screen will become almost solid
a flickering field of multi-colored spots.
And in a few more hours it will be necessary
maneuver to get out of the way
our red ones from these spots. This is where it begins
THERE IS NO REAL JOB FOR PILOTS. From
computer will be of very little use, it
He’ll just start lying, unable to cope with the problem.
a flood of information. Pilots Will Be
change every three hours, and during the shift
you from them - from him, Yulla and five more people
- It will be seven sweats. Others too
It won't be any easier. It will be necessary to constantly
shatter from debris that can
collapse from any side. And under this non-
burst bombing is necessary. It will be suitable
you go to the station flying among this chaos,
remove people from it, then valuable equipment
and, as far as possible, fill
hold materials. And again it will be hellish
labor for the pilots to remove the heavy co-
RaBl from Roy.
And if there is no one at the station
alive, everything is the same with that only difference
Tse, what will be needed from each dead man
take several samples for the gene pool
- A bank of genetic material that
is in Krasnaya orbit.Same thing
it was necessary to do with every remnant of what
that once lived, grew, ran, swam
or flew, if they meet on the way
tee. And we met. In the outer part of Roy
came across debris with forest, grass,
rocks of the seabed and even the dead
cities...
Sin remembered photographs of one of the
Lomkov. On its surface stood a city.
The city in which he lived before the Holocaust. On
in one of the photos he recognized his house... Habcer-
Yes, a lost house. All people have lost their
home, your planet. Now it's Roy.
- Okay, Yull. I'll tell Brin he
after me.
Yull nodded and headed towards the door.
- Come back, Sin, We'll wait, -
he said opening the door.
“You won’t wait long,” answered Sin.
to the pilots' customary wish of good luck.
The door closed.
Sin was left alone with space.
In eight hours he will wish you luck
Brin, who will start braking. Build-
li, engineers, doctors - everyone who has to
work at the station, they won't notice it.
Brin will start the thrusters. Usko-
the spirit they develop is insignificant, but for 36
hours of continuous work they will reduce the speed
The height of the ship is from sixteen kilometers to
second to one. This speed is sufficient
to get away from even the largest ob-
brittle, and not too high, so as not to
be able to dodge even the Fastest. AND,from the beginning of maneuvers between the wreckage to the stop-
forgings with the station, everyone will sit
tagged to the chairs. Low thrust for flight
not suitable for Roy. High thrust engines
They will throw the ship from side to side
well, and walk around Running away all the time
from under your feet the floor will be very uncomfortable.
ESPECIALLY in the depths of the Swarm. But thank God
flights deep into the Swarm will soon stop. B
On the last voyage of the ship, Sina was chasing a
which plunged into the thick of automatic observation
vatory. She was pushed entirely into the hold and
taken outside. Now the matter is more serious -
orbital station.
Sin looked at the indicator. Signal
The station's beacon has not yet been heard. Far away, yes
Debris is in the way.
What is it like for the people at the station now? All around
aboutDebris. From huge to very tiny.
They move, collide, split up,
fly to a station surrounded by a force field
tion, and from such a kick it flies as if
the ball until it collides with another piece of debris.
And fear. Constant fear of being caught between
two colliding fragments or what
Somewhat small but very fast
the stone will pierce the force field. Then - co-
Nec. At best, we will find a leaky one
A barrel full of dead people. At worst - nothing
th. All that's left from the station is smoke, yeah
perhaps also a crater on the surface of the ob-
withdrawal
There were only such stations in the depths of Roy
two. One has already been taken out of this hell andon-
walks on the way to Krasnaya. Same thing Bu-
children with this one too. First they will be evacuated
people and valuable equipment removed. How
As soon as the ship leaves the Swarm, we dive into it
tugs and will pull out the station itself
tion... Now you can't throw anything. Take
There will be nowhere. And it’s still impossible to do that either.
We need to collect what's left.
What's left...
Here is the result of intoxication with success.
There was a civilization - and now those who remain
They gathered and collected what was left.
It all started with the decision to colonize
BlueBoy. It has long been known that this
the third planet from the Sun is suitable for life
no people. And the implementation of these plans is
there was a shortage of fuel for transport
SHIP. Scientists got involved and
after some time a solution was found
but... As a result of their hard work, the light
two devices appeared that made
revolution in interplanetary transportation
cargo. The first of them, called "convert-
terom", transformed the hidden energy of simple
in more convenient to use forms
we. The second, “gravitator”, powered by
Anything could happen with the first energy
do things with the force of attraction: weaken,
amplify, change sign, direct a beam,
turn into an elastic, impenetrable wall.
Based on these devices, it was decided to post-
to build a global transport system that
the second oneaccording to calculations, will allow quickly
and it is convenient to send cargo into space and receive
their mother is from there. Just as fast and convenient
These cargoes can be moved to any
point of the planet. And the loads are considerable - in the dozens
and hundreds of thousands of tons.
Sin perfectly remembered the landing and take-off
of his then ship with the help of one
from the first nodes of the system. As soon as
The rocket ended up in a given sector of the orbit,
it was as if he had been caught by strong but dangerous
horny hands. With these "hands" the ship was
lowered to the cosmodrome directly in the designated area
his sector. Ship engines fucking all this
were silent for a while. A few days later this
same ship with a full load, also not
without spending a drop of fuel, was raised from
surface and brought to an almost exact course
to Red at the required speed.
That was great! It was so
It’s great that few people heard it back then
then he did not heed the warning of the small one
groups of gravisfer scientists.
Now everyone knows that the gravitational field
research of cosmic bodies is a complex structure
system. At the center of any gravisphere there is
the core is laid down - a very complex volumetric multi-
tiered interweaving of power lines. It
has the shape of a spherical polyhedron and
dimensions are slightly larger than the planet itself.
The rest of the gravisphere is sticking out
tentacle lines extending from the core in all directions.
They can bend in any way they want, weave...into various education. That's all
The operating principle of the gravitator has been new. Gra-
the vispheral core is a rigid structure and
very fragile. When they acted separately
transport network nodes, graphics distortion
vispheral core Were insignificant, permissible
mine. But when the transport system Was
built and launched at full capacity, structure-
ra of the upper tier of the gravispheral core Was
broken. The collapse began. First the impulse
negative gravity threw away from Pla-
no, everything that was in orbit. Then,
as the gravispheral core disintegrates, from Pla-
layer by layer they began to be thrown off
boxes. And the planetary pressure devoid of them
the core exploded.
The planet became a Swarm.
The strength of the first impulse was not everywhere
identical, and several orbital objects
comrade Were overtaken by an expanding swarm
before they could pick them up...
There was nothing left for the remaining people
another way to continue the colonization of Golu-
Fight. But soon we must collect everything that remains
elk...
“We’re coming back,” the leader said.
"Heavenly Angels"
This is how orbital construction was jokingly called
tel for more skillful flying Handling deftly
rocket packs, and for the very type of workers
spacesuits. Four rods with microblocks
motors in working position resemble
or wings spread in flight.
Sin along with other free from
watchespilots were in the "hallway" of the
Red gateway at the disposal of the Biologist. Biologist
was worried, constantly contacted the laboratory
toria, where his assistants prepared all the non-
REQUIRED FOR PROCESSING "trophies". Coman-
Dir, as always, was calm. He and
everyone looked at the screen without looking away. Seven
small figures in working spacesuits
got together and after a few seconds
smoothly lining up in a chain we moved towards
SHIP. The ship "hung" two hundred meters away
above the dead forest on the surface of the fragment,
which was discovered by the pilot on duty.
Calmly and confidently the “angels” are approaching
walked towards the open gates of the airlock and did the same
calmly, Without unnecessary movements, flew into
Board of the ship. A few meters before the gate
their “wings” folded on their backs.
Two minutes through the inner gate
the locks opened. The builders laid it on the floor
all the trophies and heavily waddling trace-
They took me to the outfitting room. Even with reduced
three times the weight is difficult for a person to carry
WEARING A WORKING SUIT. As soon as you master
The gateway was butted, the Biologist attacked the trophies.
The bags left by the builders were full
cutouts from the trunk, branches with pine needles and belly
big lumps the size of a fist. And also among
There was a ridge with a hollow of bags.
“Just look,” he admired
The biologist shows everyone the already frosty
bump. - This is a cedar pine! B genophone-
where she's not there yet. We are her firstfound... Well, ah
here...
The biologist jumped up to the ridge and looked into
hollow
“Honeycombs,” he said thoroughly,
looking at what's there. - Honeycombs of wild bees. With me-
house
He put his hand into the hollow.
- Everything is frozen. Like a stone.
The biologist stood up and looked around at the
fairies."
- To the laboratory. - ordered the Biologist.
Sin and Yull volunteered to drag the ridge. Nes-
looking at the lowered sleeves (about gloves
no one thought) a piece of the trunk was freezing the hand
ki.
“I LOVE honey,” Yull said after-
after they almost dropped the burden
stepping into the corridor, where the heaviness was normal
small
“I love you too,” Sin answered. - Only-
but we are unlikely to find another hollow with
bees.
- Nothing, nothing. There will still be honey. -
encouraged the Biologist walking next to him and carrying
one of the bags. - There’s probably some in the honeycombs
bee larvae And since there are larvae, there will be
bees and honey.
- If only bees can live on Go-
LuBoy. - said Yull.
- I hope they can. - answered Bio-
log. - Life adapts to such conditions -
Loviy, which is scary to even think about.
“I hope so too,” he said.
Sin...
And there were many reasons for hope. To mo-
ment of the disaster on Krasnaya were built
two domed cities, more than a dozen domed
full villages and many more stations
on the surface and in orbit with the general population
about a million people.Ibid on
Red managed to create several nodes
gravity transport system. And also
There was a Base on the GoluBoy satellite and a station on
its orbit...
In the meantime, we need to collect everything that remains -
elk...
An hour later the ship with evacuees from
station people left Roy and headed for
Red.
10.01.97 - 24.01.97
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(c)Roman Savchenko.
Pzhev
SUNSET
=====
Sunset. If you look at the setting
The sun is from here, from this huge hill,
towering above the blue-green bulk
forests, it might seem that on the ground
some terrible cataclysm is coming. All
the area around was gradually flooded with wild Crimson
glow. The sky, the earth, the forest - everything seemed
burning in an all-consuming flame.
I loved the sunset, although if it
look for an extra few minutes, in
a gloomy thing began to arise, not fully realized
called by the mind, a feeling of ending. And although I already
got used to the fact that at the end of summer here
such sunsets, I still couldn’t overcome it
this feeling.
I moved to these places about five years ago.
back. I used to work in a nature reserve at
the other end of our “immense”, and here is one
one day my friends and I decided to go to these
places onhunting. And when we returned, I
I realized that I can’t live without these places
I don't want to. Since then I started working
here. Huge forests and not a soul around the city
one hundred and fifty meters. Strange property
I understood your local sunsets only towards the end
my first year of living in these places...
And now... The cigarette burns out and
I corrected my wine without turning to the west.
a tow, threw the young carcass more comfortably
deer and moved east. The day is ending
and there are still five or six kilometers to the house.
***
- Considering the specifics of the structure, I think
WHAT YOU NEED TO CHOOSE A CCO21E system. Total
nine planets and besides I have already discovered
an excellent planet for a resident epicentre
ra compression.
- Fine. What about intelligent life?
- On this planet there is just some kind of
race. But they are at such a level of development that
we shouldn't even pay attention to them
nia. Besides, we are too big
Problems to take into account such a trifle
com, like a herd of Aboriginals.
- Well, great. Give me the documentation... I
I agree with the committee.
Strange creatures exchanged some
objects and dispersed in different directions
sides of a huge spacecraft,
hovering near a small planetary
systems.
And a few hours from the ship
separated medium sized metal
the ball began to driftto the side blue
planets.
***
...Six days ago in my sector for-
A rather large meteorite fell to the commander.
And now there is no passage in the forest from all sorts of
there are scientists from delegations and the press. In my house
three scientists who were engaged in this
PROBLEM.
Today I returned from hunting quite
late and when I opened the door, the first thing
what I saw was a laid table, two bottles
ki and the stranger sitting in my chair and
talking to scientists.
- I'm saying it's impossible to call him -
you can! It's made of some strange alloy and
You can’t reach it with ultrasound. - proved
to a stranger Valery Alekseevich is one of
my guests.
- Yeah... Exactly. And don't cut it. You
They promised to send a laser. Or what? B
institute, it looks like a bunch of complete idiots have gathered
you... I sent the request two days ago...
- Calm down! You will also have a laser
and everything you need. We have to wait!
- Wait... Ha! By the way, re-
the results of preliminary studies on
show that inside there is nothing more than movement
chewing mechanism! Yes, yes! From the object
It's quite a powerful and rhythmic vibration!
What if when we wait it will be too late?
but?..
- Oops! Hello Alexey! you today
We're late! And here we are chatting. -Va-
Leria winked at me when I glanced sideways
on the finished Bottle standing on the floor
"wheat". -meet our guide and
head - Alexey Lvovich. The forestry works
com in this wild land, and this wonderful
five-star hotel - his own
ness.
The stranger extended his hand.
- And I am the namesake of this joker - Valery
Petrovich. I work at the same institute as him.
Do you mind if I visit you today?
I smell it. Otherwise I’m too lazy to drag myself to the camp.
- Yes, of course... Make yourself at home. -
I mumbled. I was already starting to miss
the loneliness in which I lived and which
used to drive me crazy.
- That's great! Join us
to our table...
***
...In the camp everyone was already asleep when the weather
orite lying in a healthy crater of steel
some transformations are taking place. From
Four powerful paws extended from the sides - under
stakes that raised him to heights,
somewhere, a meter. From the bottom of the buzzing
a powerful drill fell. And huge, sparkling in
in the moonlight the ball became like a spider with
a long sting, ready to pierce the victim.
The drill started spinning and the first clods of earth
flew in all directions, rustling and crushing
grass A few seconds later the ball disappeared
in the hole.
***
...- He's gone!!!
- Who is not there, - sleepy and still a little muddy -
"after yesterday" Valera stared at
the forwarding officer who ran in without knocking
tions.
- Ball! This damn meteorite has disappeared!
-Come on... I'm not in the mood for jokes right now...
Seriously?
- I look like an idiot with a stock of flats
jokes?
- Hmm... Well, what happened there?
- There's a mine in the middle of the crater.
down. Looks like he's buried himself or something. DEPTH
huge, and then the mine goes sideways, well
further, for obvious reasons, we did not go further
or our equipment.
- We urgently need to go to the place. Rise!
- he pushed aside two of his acquaintances, and I
I haven't slept for a long time. - the unexpected happened
day!
Everything exactly corresponded to the description
sylnogo. There was a few meters around
the ground is scattered. The shaft has a diameter of exactly
the meteorite lying in the crater went deep
Sideways into the bowels of the earth.
- I think I said that maybe
late! Where was your damn laser?
Everyone sat down in amazement on the edge of the wells.
tsa.
- Everything is gone... This damn meteorite
disappeared. We can't get it.
- How did he do it, interesting -
but...
- Well, what will we do next?.. I you-
blew out a cloud of smoke from another cigarette and
I remembered the sunset...
***
...- The device has been installed. If you start to dis-
dusting immediately, then after an hour primary
planetary system will be destroyed, launch-
tim compression mechanism and after thirty
hours we will create a sufficiently large plan-
no room for check-in.
- How long will it take to create
giving atmosphere?
- Nearseven o'clock.
- Great. I think all conditions are acceptable.
Get started...
06/18/99.
music: BOOM I MUSIC ANT P.
by: ANDREW SENDETSKI ASC
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(c) Evgeny Borisov.
Staritsa.
That's all...
The door opened, as it always did.
yes, when he entered the apartment. As always-
yes, first the outside, then the inside. For
double entrance door - long brown
door-hallway, from which they led to the rooms
doors with locks much better than the ones at the entrance -
noy: typical communal apartment. He immediately felt
he said, as all the air fell on him
corridor, completely saturated with bedbugs,
dusty old stuff, kitchen stuff and evil gossip.
He takes long strides, as if afraid of suffocating
in this frenzy, he walked to his door, unlocked
lock and sliding inside to quickly close
dug the door behind him. Here he is at his home.
You can breathe more freely... And the window is open-
need to dig.
Behind a thin wall in the corridor, then on
there's a fuss in the kitchen again, the clanking of dishes, Good
mat. And not the Good One either... Again two kumus-
the neighbors barked over a trifle.
Alone again, the one that chatters like a magpie,
I didn’t use my frying pan, but another
gay, the one who responds to her falsely
howling like a canary, she salted something that wasn’t herssalt... God, how tired of all this!.. Poo-
root for about fifteen minutes, they will stop, and after
in an hour or two they will take someone else’s again. On purpose
after all, they will take it so that they can yell out loud again
will And when they’re not yelling, they’re whispering, aha-
yut in every possible way upon hearing the “amazing” but-
vost. Of course they have him, a weakling, a mattress and
The last fool is a “philosopher”, in a word.
All others are hooligans, bandits, scarecrows
gardeners are also fools...
How disgusting all this is. How disgusting... And
They call this "cultural entertainment"
evening." And so it always is. More precisely, almost always
yes. When an electrician comes home from work,
gray from the room opposite, chatter in the kitchen-
does not immediately fall silent. Peacham electrician
he just opens the front door, and
they can already smell the flies... They respect the electrician. He
authority for them. Well, yes! Height meter
ninety, broad-shouldered, wiry with a
with howling fists and a tinned throat.
When the electrician had just moved in,
the gossips were still chattering in front of him, but already completely
voices, gossiping, talking over each other
ke bones. But it lasted until
until one day he smashed his fist into a hundred
Lu, which made all the pots in the kitchen jump -
zeros, and did not rattle under the rattling of glass in
window: “Come on, be quiet!” And it became quiet. And with tkh
Since then it has always been quiet if he is at home.
And the electrician turned out to be a good person.
He was above all this mouse fuss, above
allthese squabbles, evil gossip and caustic
talking shops All this fell apart about his gr-
thread hardness. And the gossips consider it
... Perhaps this is the only thing they consider
lurked. When did the electrician stay with him?
one on one, then threw off the granite
new Bulletproof vest and became the same as
he is a visionary and a dreamer. And for a long time they
often late into the night, we talked. It Was
like a breath of oxygen in a complete frenzy,
like a sip of water in the desert. Lead fell
great heaviness from the soul, the disgusting
a dregs of bitterness and hopeless melancholy. Ho- again
I wanted to live, dream, create.
However, recently even these
the meetings did not bring the relief that
before...
He stood for a moment in front of the window, then
returned to the door and closed it with the latch.
I didn't want to see anyone. Nobody... Here
So I wish I could close myself off from everything and lie down, le-
sit on the sofa in a quiet room and dream,
until you get tired of it.
He lay down on the sofa.
In the window, light cirrus formations were visible
LOCATION AND BRIGHT BLUE SKY. "And what's under this
Sky and Blocks? Probably the sea." - think
he is small.
And he imagined how somewhere below
horseman on a blue background, as if on a leaf
The paper begins to be drawn on the surface
water content. Line after line appears
outlines of small waves that go to
the horizon is getting smaller and smaller,
until they disappear into the distance. On the waves, likestrokes of paint, bright highlights, semi-
afternoon sun... No, not that. Not half-
day... Dawn. Let there be dawn. NeBo
It’s still dark, but the horizon is burning with might and main
morning dawn. Her golden reflections are falling
to the water. On the still dark, almost black,
duh... The resulting landscape begins to bloom
chill. At first it resembles a child's r...
sunok, but with every second everything becomes clearer
details are being worked out, and in his imagination-
the picture turned out to be as if it had come out
from under the brush of Aivazovsky. Leave it like this?
No, we need to finish... The process continues-
Xia. Soon Aivazovsky’s painting turned into
fits into a photograph... Or maybe into a frame
movie?.. Yes, that's right! That's right! Frozen-
Great still from the movie. Now operator
presses the button and... The sea came to life.
This is beauty! It took my breath away.
The leaden heaviness in my soul has disappeared... Te-
let's breathe in fresh air for complete
happiness. He got up from the sofa and walked over to the window.
well. Closing his eyes, he turned his face to the current
to the breeze through the window, exhaled in one gulp and began
inhale slowly listening to the sensation
yum...
He shuddered. Something was wrong. Voz-
the spirit was too fresh for the city and in it
smells not typical of the city were in the air. He opened
rolled his eyes, leaned out of the window and froze
so...
There was a sea outside the window. It splashed
three floors below. Darkness, almost black,
waterreflected the bright koser of the morning dawn,
shining on the horizon directly opposite the window.
He jumped back in fright. It Was
the same sea that he just blew out
small This scared him. "It can't be...
I'm crazy..." - they started spinning in my head
uncontrollable thoughts.
The sea began to turn pale, melt away like
fog. The dawn was dimming. The dark woman turned pale
yes. Through them hundreds of
seen once and bored just as many times
city landscape. And when the sea was left
only pale, barely noticeable lines, fear in
it was replaced by a burning, painful desire.
"No! No!! Let it be!!" He rushed towards
the window and grabbed the window sill with his hands.
"Let there be a sea!" He closed his eyes and
Rav in his fist all the power of will began to re-
poke the sea in your imagination...
The gossip, the one who always grabbed something
chewing a frying pan, knocked on the door of his room
naty. Again the philosopher began to daydream, slowed down,
it needs to be sewn.
- Philosopher, borrow some matches. There is no gas
light it up,” she crackled with her sharp voice
chemical voice.
No answer.
She knocked again.
- Hey! Did you fall asleep there or something?
No answer.
“He’s sleeping,” she said and went away.
kitchen.
He repeated the whole process again. First-
la lines, then paint. Again a picture from
a child's drawing turned into a movie frame
film. The operator pressed the button and the picture
came to life. Now you canopen your eyes, but he
didn't dare. What if everything just fades away for him?
was silent and, opening his eyes, he would only see
gray dusty city outside the window?
He opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
nim. The sea splashed outside the window.
He leaned out of the window. water surface
lay three floors below and the wall of the house did not
touched her. She seemed to dissolve in
air without reaching any water
meters. He looked around, turned
I looked up. This is true. No corners
no house, no roof. Piece hanging in the air
walls with several windows and melting edges -
mi... Amazing... Why not?
He looked at the sea and whistled from
surprise. He didn't make this up. By sea
there was a decent sized ship with a high
superstructure in the front and extensive
smooth deck immediately behind her. SHIP NAP-
pointed in his direction...
In twenty minutes the gossip will return -
las.
“Philosopher,” she cried from Baraba.
niv at the door. - Are there any matches?
There is silence outside the door again.
The gossip shrugged her shoulders and set off again.
ran into the kitchen. “I fell asleep,” I thought
she. “Like a gopher in winter.”
The ship slowed down and turned around
Tom to the wall. On the smooth deck he saw
people dressed like at a carnival. They hi-
they waved at him and shouted something, but he
I couldn't hear them yet.
And then he noticed that the ship continuedwants to fight. SIDE FORWARD SHIP
was approaching the wall. To him... Someone is wearing
dressed in the clothes of d'Artagnan's time, clearly his
Converting, he ran up onto the bridge next to
chopping...
The electrician came. Gossip, here again
went to ask for matches, knocked on the door
and when we see the electrician, she said:
- Your philo-friend is fast asleep.
zof. I can’t reach you for an hour now.
- Let the man sleep, - answered
It was as if the electrician had dropped a weight on the floor. Kumush-
ka immediately darted into the kitchen.
The bridge turned out to be higher than the window. Board the ship
Lya froze a meter from the wall. "D'Artagnan"
smiled warmly at him and waved his hand
inviting you on board. He looked at the deck.
People stood huddled near the Near Side and
They also invited him to their place. He looked at
their painted faces without masks, caught
a few glances and realized that they were all
visionaries and visionaries like himself.
He turned back and looked at his room.
natu. What kept him here? Gossips?
Boring job? Consider it your home
no. There is no favorite girl either. There is a friend
electrician... He will understand him and will not judge him,
because he knows his cherished dreams.
He turned to D'Artagnan. Let
the electrician will see this sea and him on this co-
RaBlais. "D'Artagnan" nodded affirmatively.
A ladder rose from the deck to the window. He opened
dug the window sashes wide open, climbed onto the window sill
nicknameand felt the first step with his foot. A
then he suddenly found himself on deck among
carnival costumes. According to those who study it
looking at him, he realized that it didn’t bother him either
dress up. But where can I get a suit? The answer is he
I immediately respected the looks. He closed his eyes
I drew a picture in my mind of how I would like to look
and when the image is completely ready, click
zeroed with his fingers. Applause rang out around him.
disments. He opened his eyes. Someone brought it
him a mirror. He saw exactly how
I drew it in my thoughts. cowboy hat,
plaid shirt, scarf around the neck, holster with
water pistol on a belt. From under the hat
a fiery red wig peeks out, a ball nose
sticks out in front of a clown-painted face
big, wide clown pants deliberately bright
stylized as jeans, with clown legs
Boots: a sort of clown cowboy. Everything is as it is
he wanted...
Then he remembered what was in his pocket
the key to the room, now he doesn’t need it at all
ny. The key ended up in the clown's pocket
pants He glanced towards the wall. Co-
Rabel had already moved quite far away from her.
Don’t finish it... But, by the way, why is that?
You just need to imagine. And he imagines
I saw how the key he threw flew into the window
his room, falls on the table and clangs
on it: “Mo-re in the window.” He found everything
the window is already decently pale and transparent
against the wall, took aim and threw...
- Your friend has been sleeping for a long timephilo-
“zof,” said the gossip to the electrician through
half an hour when they collided again at
doors.
“Yes indeed,” he agreed.
The electrician pushed aside the gossip and knocked himself.
No answer. Silence. Electrician
sat down by the door and looked through the keyhole.
- Well, what is he there? - the gossip began to cry -
ka. - I have nothing to light the gas with!
The electrician looked away from the keyhole
us.
“It looks like he’s not there,” he said. - And
For some reason the window is...
Window!!!
The electrician jumped up and hit the door of his
their mighty shoulder. The thin latch is not
resisted, the door swung open. Electrician
burst inside. The gossip is behind him.
- O-o-o-a-a-o-oh!! - she screamed
seeing an open window. - Philosopher through the window
I'll jump out!
And she rushed off into the corridor to report the news.
the whole apartment.
The electrician jumped to the window and wanted to
look down at your dead friend,
the fifth floor after all, when suddenly he passed
something broke on the head, fell on the table and
tinkled. “Mo-re in the window”: it seemed to him
in this ringing. He turned around. Lying on the table
the key to this room.
"The sea is in the window. The sea is in the window" - circle
The sound of a fallen key echoed in his head.
Sea... In the window... Sea in the window. The sea is ok
no!
He turned to the window and began to draw
sea in your imagination. He barely spent
horizon line, as the duck flashed above him
early dawn...
HeI saw how the wall had melted away
became dense again. But not all, but only
A small part of it around the window of his room -
you. And in this wide open window he
I saw an electrician. He ran to the edge of the deck
I would have waved to my friend. He saw
business, found out, waved in response, shouted something -
zero to him. He didn't hear, It was far away, but
realized that his friend wished him a good trip.
As a sign that the friend was heard, he took out
water pistol and poured into the air. Above
ship the fiery dandelion bloomed salu-
ta.
The wall suddenly disappeared. He felt
warmth on his back and turned around. Over the sea
seemed like the edge of the sun.
The electrician took a look just in case.
down. There was no one on the sidewalk under the window
lo. He sighed in relief and became closed.
open the window.
At that moment they burst into the room
residents of the communal apartment, led by the gossip-co-
rocky.
- Where? Where is he? - they started talking
they. - Let me see... Probably to death
crashed...
“He’s not there,” he said harshly and weightily.
the electrician closed the window and deliberately rang
Ko, with force, snapped the latches.
- How is it not?! - the gossip was indignant -
ka. - I myself saw how he went down -
zero!
- Well, run downstairs and look, es-
Have you seen it?
The electrician slammed the doors of the second frame
and again clicked the bolts with force. For-
then he stepped to the table, took the key andstarted
push those rushing towards the window towards the door.
A few seconds later, the magpie co-
I figured it would be easier to run downstairs than this
it took an hour to get to the window, and she rushed to the first
exit. The others rushed after her.
- He’s not downstairs! - shouted after them
electrician and quietly added. - He is where
I have been striving for a long time... Happy.
And the ship with a carnival on board
Time picked up speed, heading straight towards
rising sun.
==========================================================
=========================================
Share your thoughts about the article