Vadim P. Chernyshev

Stories

Short fiction: parables about the future, memory, and people who never stop asking questions

1 March 2025 · 10 min read

3+3

The traveler wanders in an endless labyrinth of gigantic trees, where the laws of three-dimensional geometry are intertwined with the nature of time.

18 February 2025 · 5 min read

Garland

A tangible darkness thickens in the room, through which flickering threads of memories and revelations of invisible worlds appear.

10 February 2025 · 7 min read

FOX

A wounded forest visitor on the porch of an old veterinarian turns into a guide into the depths of nocturnal awareness.

28 January 2025 · 6 min read

Dialogue about oblivion

An ironic morning conversation between a cat and a witch about human weaknesses, saving oblivion and the severity of memory.

15 January 2025 · 84 min read

Heresy

Exploration of the limits of the rational spirit: when everything sensible is influenced from without, only the purified mind retains freedom.

15 December 2024 · 11 min read

Others

The major's ordinary Monday in a dull government corridor turns into a secret contact with another, alien reality.

5 December 2024 · 10 min read

Jesus of Nazareth

The set of a blockbuster under the scorching sun turns into a satire on the factory of illusions and a reinterpretation of an ancient myth.

20 November 2024 · 7 min read

Protocol "Humanism 2.0"

Geneva 2042, Hall of Ethical Supervision: hearings on the bill of mental comfort and the right of artificial intelligence to subjectivity.

2 November 2024 · 8 min read

Book

The last rays of sunset in a quiet library awaken the pages of an ancient volume that can rewrite one's predetermined destiny.

18 October 2024 · 7 min read

Selina

A cat accidentally saved in the pouring rain holds in her green eyes an ancient understanding of human pain and the secret of fate.

5 October 2024 · 18 min read

Ritual

A dangerous path over steep cliffs straight into the clouds leads the seeker to the ancient sacrament of initiation and rebirth.

12 September 2024 · 8 min read

Synthetic (Trust)

Artificial intelligence coolly observes the impotence of witches' curses, raising the eternal debate between technology and magic.

22 August 2024 · 5 min read

Okami

In the lunar twilight, the spirit of a wolf-youkai in the guise of a samurai reveals a bottomless longing for a lost original destiny.

25 July 2024 · 12 min read

The Dragon

Unexpectedly, the velvet scales of an ancient lizard and an ironic night conversation on its withers about human inventions and fears.

10 July 2024 · 6 min read

Revision at Point Zero

A meeting at the Great Attractor, where space is folded into quantum knots, and the results of existence are summed up at a table made of frozen time.

14 June 2024 · 8 min read

The Observer

Quantum superposition and the creak of a monastic pen: the researcher’s consciousness breaks out of the shell of existence into the labyrinth of probabilities.

1 June 2024 · 6 min read

Synergy

Shadows dance around the dying fireplace while the two conduct a quiet dialogue about the merging of disparate principles into harmony of the highest order.

18 April 2024 · 7 min read

Step!

The impenetrable black surface of the mysterious lake and the persistent whisper from the abyss, beckoning the soul to step onto the water surface.

12 March 2024 · 6 min read

Whisper of a forgotten name

Twilight outside the window erases the outlines of the city, bringing to life the vibrations of an ancient name hidden in the thickness of centuries.

5 February 2024 · 6 min read

Echo of the First Cause

A room without walls, existing only by the will of those present: a chronicle of the creation of the first mental impulses of the Universe.

14 November 2023 · 10 min read

Vacancy

The frontier experience of meditation and etheric travel reveals to the aspirant unusual demands for a new form of existence.

20 October 2023 · 8 min read

Before the flood

Tree giants block the rays of the merciless sun while the cult minister has a final conversation with the imperishable spirit of the Supreme One.

11 August 2023 · 8 min read

Conversation

The even voice of the Interlocutor gently burns into the memory, leading the Creator’s debate about the boundaries of created matter and freedom of choice.

25 June 2023 · 8 min read

Interview

The applicant crosses the threshold of the citadel of the transnational corporation URVAL LTD, where the preservation of humanity is at stake.

10 April 2023 · 5 min read

Wall

The night is inexorably approaching dawn near a locked corridor, where an insurmountable border separates the familiar reality from the incomprehensible.