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Vasyl Mulik is a Ukrainian helicopter officer, a participant in hostilities and numerous peacekeeping operations in Africa, a writer, poet, and author of the book “Congo-Donbas. Helicopter Flashbacks”. A man with an unusual, very difficult, unique life experience and a combat path, which is organically reflected in his work.

“Sometimes it seems to us that our hearts, our souls, and even ourselves have frozen and turned into blocks of cold ancient stone. But there, under the layers of black rock, a flame rages — an unquenchable fire. The fire of our love, the fire of our hatred. Of our desires, emotions, and feelings. And for everyone — for everyone! — one way or another, the time comes when this fire tears apart the stone shell of our hearts from the inside and pours out — an unstoppable, burning stream of fiery lava.”

The collection consists of four sections. Three blocks of poems: "Love", "War" and "Subjective Reality". The fourth section of the collection is a phantasmagoric, but at the same time socially realistic play about ancient forgotten gods and their (and not only their) adventures in our reality.

However, the division into sections is rather conditional. After all, the themes of love, war and reality are closely intertwined in a tight, vibrating bundle of feelings and sensations, images and meanings, allegories and allusions, metaphors, triggers and pain points...