The stories included in this collection are diverse in style. Some of them are attracted by surreal colors, as well as a slight touch of postmodernism. All texts are united not only by the author's name, but also by a certain direction that allows the writer to weave fiction with reality in such a way that convention is perceived as reality, and realism as something incredible and fantastic. Literary games are a serious and necessary thing. For this reason, the book is about Love, Death and Art, that is, about Life itself. And Life, according to the author, takes place on the edge of the Abyss, suddenly falling into it, sometimes after talking to her. "... and other stories" are included in the author's body of prose, but they are different because they do not contain fiction, although they are not exactly memoirs. Rather, they are reconciliations of memory, capturing the lightest and saddest, the funniest and funniest, as well as the most amazing and ridiculous. From this mosaic arises a picture of the life of society and personality for half a century of life in the USSR (at the abyss on the edge).