A short story is a literary form that few people undertake. It is not so easy to show a whole life on several pages, causing readers to have vivid emotions and affection for the characters, but Maria Metlitskaya invariably copes with this challenge.Her short stories are distinguished by their special intonation, vivid details and soft irony, intertwined with light sadness. The characters in them do not only good and only bad things — they stumble and make mistakes, like all living people."Beware, the doors are closing" is a book about the search for happiness and a better life, a revision of values, including family values, that you cannot change the world around you without changing your attitude to it.