The time is 15-20 minutes. I was sitting at the computer for quite a long time and suddenly I wanted to ride a bike. I rolled my friend out onto the landing, squeezed him into the elevator, reached the first one, squeezed him out of the elevator, went out into the courtyard and was just about to perch on the seat when, before my eyes, he became like rubber and collapsed in a shapeless heap at my feet. I stand rooted to the spot. Something's happened! I was saved by a passing man. He wasn't from our house, but as he passed by, he glanced meaningfully in my direction.: "Are you aware," he asked me, "that our galaxy has begun its penetration through the quasi-quantum-monopit field?" "What does that mean?" - I'm asking. - And this means that the physics we are used to in this field stops working. Look, I'm doing this with an effort of thought.: The man's legs began to lengthen. They lengthened until the man himself was no longer visible. Then suddenly the soles of his feet left the sidewalk and rushed after the owner. And suddenly, instead of my left palm, the man's face appeared.: "You should get out of here!" - He shouted, and I saw my left hand again. Looking around, I realized what he meant: the corners of my house began to flatten with a deafening crack, and the house itself began to turn into a ball, and as soon as the transformation was completed, the house rolled. I don't remember how I ended up in the air. There were quite a few people around me, as well, in complete disbelief, hovering in the air and staring down. And below was the end of everything: -all the houses turned into balls and began to crash into each other. Residents jumped out of the rounded windows (of those who were caught off guard), with screams full of horror they fell under their own houses, But most of them soared immediately. The end was not long. Soon, all the townspeople, or almost all of them, were lifted into the skies. And beneath them, so recently, the peacefully slumbering city, there was a dense column of dust and fear of a possible, or maybe impossible, future.

If you have, then... If your voice suddenly changed, making it impossible to pronounce individual words, and your tongue began to grow hair., if bronze-colored ribbons of unknown origin suddenly began to grow from under your fingernails, and your eyes narrowed to the size of a match head, if the stomach has stretched out and filled the whole body with its volume, and the skin has become bright yellow and in the semi-darkness there is a pulsation of phosphorescent light. , if your nose has melted like a snowball, and a neat round hole has formed in its place, if the toes curled up and began to stretch towards the head, which had already ceased to be it, but began to look more like a huge dumbbell., so you have ceased to be a human being and it would be better for you to immediately apply to the Academy of Sciences, where you will live a little longer under the studying and stunned gazes of academics, or it is better to strangle yourself so as not to frighten either people or yourself with your appearance.

The yellow dwarf ate my feet, He ate the basin with his tongue And spitting out fleshy saliva He rolled away. I lie there and smile at him, and I know, That this is just the beginning. My journey in space has only been a year old, And I was already too seasick in it.

When people found out that rivers were intelligent, they immediately taxed them. And what can you take from the river?! Maybe a little fish. And the fish in the rivers, I must say, are the fault of the same people, there are just a few left. But you have to pay. And the rivers became unfriendly, bristly and prickly. And those who had previously found the desired solace there stopped coming to their shores. 2018

Yes, yes. According to many principles, it simply cannot be. It makes no sense to list these principles, because they are so alien to the inhabitants of the Earth, as if they were told that red is not exactly what you think, and green is not green at all. Aliens, let's call them that, if they ever set foot on our land, it will happen exactly as I describe it. And it will happen suddenly. In one of the major cities, Barkham will appear on one of the central squares. It will appear as if it has been there since time immemorial. Not big and not small. It's quite average enough to fit into the local exterior without prejudice to everyone. There will be no panic from the people nearby, as those sitting on the other side of the Barkham wall froze the panic, as they say, "in the bud", even before they appeared. Everything froze in the required radius. Even the ringing thread of electricity in the wires in the ensemble with the rest of the noise. Even the fluttering flock of pigeons hung in the still air. But with all this, it wasn't time that was stopped, but something else. No special effects, although at first glance such a picture would seem impossible. But, it turned out, reality can be like that. Not that scattering of people frozen in the square, but we, the readers, are witnessing the coming of a Higher Race. They are a product of evolution, carefully preserved by the multi-billion-year history of Global Existence. They are the center of divine perfection. Their nature is so subtle and impeccable that no contact is out of the question. Any movement we make, even a hint of it, will be the greatest irritant for them. Wouldn't it be easier to freeze everything here and go about your business quietly? Exactly by deed. There is no mission. She's just a myth, invented by incompetents from a pen. The Barkham curtain swung up like a silent fan and creatures resembling the 3D animated characters we are used to appeared to us. On Earth, however, as elsewhere, the work is not difficult. Light clouds are floating high in the sky. Just below, the black dots of already frozen birds. Even lower down, on the ancient square, yellow from the sun, there are earthlings. And strange silhouettes glide silently between them. Harmlessly and with infinite delicacy, they will listen to the contents of the heads of sleeping people, sniffing slightly. The so-called scan will not last long. By the way, in their homeland such work is considered dirty, but no less honorable. Since you need to have a lot of courage to scan the lower ones. Thank God, at the end, everything you read can be erased. Actually, their job is cleaning. And what can compare with cleanliness. Purity is harmony. Harmony is the universe. If the soft boxes that hold the pillars of the moment begin to crackle from the nefarious thoughts of the frozen, their foreman will instruct them to add these very cod in one sum. If the amount jumps beyond, let's call it red, the line, then harmony is broken in this area. This means that another tank of palnacite will be unfastened from the side of the Barkham. If the total amount of unwanted cracks remains on the left side of the line, then no one living on Earth will ever know how dazzlingly the blade of the sword of Damocles sparkled above them. But in neither case will there be any contact. 2013

Night. I'm sitting on the balcony, smoking. Suddenly, a dazzling white streak cut through the night sky. It was expanding rapidly, and in that opening I saw two heads. Both heads looked like the heads of ordinary teenagers. And they were giggling in a bad way. Suddenly, a hand appeared on the right side of one of the heads. She's just like everyone else. And she reached out in our direction. Growing larger and larger, it covered everything that had been the sky up to that moment. And in an instant, the day came. Everything flashed by like in a nightmare. It was obvious that one teenager was throwing our mother earth to another, and then back. And then, the last thing we all heard was an adult indignant cry - "What have you done, you bastards!". 2020

One day, spring did not come. It's snowing and snowing. And then the frosts came. It felt like the Christmas tree had been removed early, and it was possible not to remove it at all. But it's already the middle of March. True, spring did not come to Siberia, but when people contacted Moscow, they said that it had not reached them yet. People started looking for her. Otherwise, summer will come only after spring calls him, and she herself is not there. then it turned out that spring, for some reason, had crossed the mountains. The Ministry of Emergency Situations, of course, dug her up and scolded her properly: - She almost gave us an ice age, which means the Ice Age is theirs. And they brought spring to Moscow, from where it finally began to melt the hated ice.

A sad surprise. The man took out a cigarette, but it fell out of his hands. Cursing, he took the other one, but even that slipped between his fingers. the third, and the fourth. The man got angry and then realized that he couldn't feel his hands. And he doesn't feel himself. Looking around, he saw that it was actually a monument.

A strange thing happened to me yesterday. I had to replace the janitor at the entrance of the music conservatory. I sit for an hour, I sit for two hours. And then a kid about twelve years old comes up to me. In his right hand he held a violin case. As a deputy janitor, I should check on everyone, since I don't know anyone, so I asked the guy to show me the contents of the case that he holds in his hand. The boy looked as gloomy as a cloud, I noticed that only now, but nevertheless he carefully placed his case on the table right in front of me and flipped the lid open. I saw a very normal violin with a very ordinary bow. But I noticed something else. I could make out someone's feet under the violin. The guy apparently noticed my confusion and hurried to explain everything. - You see, he told me, this is the lower part of my father, she is still alive, while the upper part died a week ago. And then the lower part of the boy's father spoke. It was like a father, or more precisely, what was left of him, feeling his impending demise and trying to give his son final instructions. Trying not to show my excitement, I allowed the guy to go through the entrance and expressed my regret to him. Thanking me and holding the treasured case under his arm, he disappeared into the depths of the conservatory corridor.

2018

THE TASS MESSAGE.

Dear parents! We kindly ask you to refrain from going to the city zoo with your children. Large animals began to mutate from hunger. They have learned to suck small animals directly into their mouths over long distances. The mutations continue. Every day the distance of their influence increases. The city authorities are taking all precautions. In the coming days, the zoo will be surrounded by a hundred-meter cordon. In the future, it is likely that the fence will be systematically expanded.

2001

A vision between waking and sleeping. "I AM DEATH" When I died, there was a bright flash, and then, as if filling invisible corners, a steady and very pleasant yellowish light spread everywhere. It felt like I was born. Although I don't remember exactly how I was born the first time. Such lightness from the pain gone, as if it had never been there. But almost immediately, I felt something strange. Something huge approached me from behind. I can't explain what it means to be huge, but other feelings, other sensations, prevailed over me. And this something pulled me to it and began to intertwine my legs and arms. Thus, I was chained to no one knows what and no one knows how. And then, out of nowhere, a very calm voice rang out: - We need to work, it's not for long, but we need to work. I was not afraid. And it wasn't scary, but on the contrary, it seemed - that's the true state of things and how could it be otherwise. I turned my head hoping to see the wall that made it impossible for me to even move, but I saw nothing. Moreover, I couldn't see my own hands. I didn't see my legs either, and the strange thing is, I used to see my nose, but now it's not there. Nevertheless, I could feel my arms and legs, my body and my head. But it didn't surprise me much. I was more interested in my position: perfect comfort and absolute lack of will. And suddenly everything changed. The light began to fade, a cold twilight appeared through it, and strange silhouettes lit up everywhere. Thanks to this, it was possible to judge the space around. It was as if I was hanging in an endless space, illuminated by bright diamond-shaped shapes. I immediately noticed that the figures were moving in different directions. Their movements were slow and the whole picture seemed rather static. And then something began to stir that I felt like I was one with. It tilted forward slowly and silently and, with a barely noticeable rotation, moved through the glowing subjects wandering in the bluish void. Our speed gradually increased and now we are flying at breakneck speed. And suddenly we stopped. There was no stopping distance, there was no inertia, we just stood rooted to the spot. Wow, I thought to myself, what laws you have here. A similar diamond hovered right in front of us. But something made him different from the others. Firstly, he was motionless, turned to one side and did not glow with a cheerful light like his brothers. Something's not right here, I thought. Suddenly, a glittering object began to protrude from the place that I once called the chest. The object turned out to be a ball, about fifteen centimeters in diameter. There was a rather creepy worm-like substance trailing behind him. It reflected the countless crowds of surrounding light sources and seemed to be made of metal, although it writhed as if alive. Stretching about a meter away from me, the ball with the tail-like substance pulled itself up almost close to that poor guy and opened as if its mouth had gaped. Then something pretty clear happened to me. The diamond dimmed completely and seemed to pull itself into the gaping mouth of the ball. Although it seems to me that he was helped in this. Who knows what kind of technology they have here. The balloon snapped shut. And it all quickly sucked into my chest. And then it dawned on me, as if it had dawned on me. After all, just now, someone simply glued the flippers together. And suddenly I saw a clear picture. In the space where I am at the moment, people, or maybe it's not even the earth at all, are simply not visible. And only their souls are visible. Moreover, souls, as I now know, are the same throughout the universe. Then I heard the voice again: - Well, now we have to work, but it won't be for long. With that, something behind me loosened its grip. the bonds. The powerful loins, like tree roots, slipped off my invisible body and it disappeared. I understood that the master class was over. And that means I won't have to stay in this place for long. There is no time here. Everything is like one moment here, and at this moment you can fit billions of years that drag out time on planets like Earth. And then what does this "not for long" mean? In the future, I will get to know my colleagues on the shop floor. They will initiate me into the "Truth." And also into what the Great Cosmos is for earthlings. That's for later, but for now I need to work. 2019