Oleksandr Shatkivskyi

The Sun is breaking into pieces, and hard times are coming, but Mokosh has the power to prevent this world from dying under the wreckage of the old sun. Mokosh is the life-giving goddess in ancient Slavic mythology, Mother Earth, who rules nature and has the ability to both create and destroy.

The Sun is breaking into pieces, and hard times are coming, but Mokosh has the power to prevent this world from dying under the wreckage of the old sun. Mokosh is the life-giving goddess in ancient Slavic mythology, Mother Earth, who rules nature and has the ability to both create and destroy.

Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.

Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.

In the rural Ukraine, in a ghostly world where fantasy tears the veil of reality, life fiercely fights death every day and old values and vengeance reign over people's souls, Vitka, an imaginative and rebellious little girl, is the fascinated witness to the crazy love that Larysa, her teenage cousin, feels for Scar, a young criminal.