Publisher's Synopsis
We dedicated this issue to the superpower of Ukrainians, which doesn't allow us to break or give up. This is what makes people believe in miracles, even when everyone says that a loved one is dead. It is what helps us survive months of captivity and not lose faith and hope.
We have dedicated this issue to love in time of war. The collected stories will evoke a full range of emotions, because they are not always stories with a happy ending, and sometimes they have no ending at all. A couple who left home and went to the trenches to fight side by side. A couple who formed in an Azovstal shelter... A soldier who lost his loved one but got a new chance. A soldier who survived captivity because he believed that his beloved survived in Mariupol. Healing with love This story could have become a bestselling novel, but it happened on the outskirts of Odesa region under fire. Pavlo met the war in the trenches, defending his native land. While defending his homeland, the man learns that his best friend, whom Pavlo loved dearly, died in the war near Kharkiv. Subsequently, he suffers even more losses: the war takes away his loved ones... The man loses the point of living and fighting on. But one day, fate sends him a new chance. The surviving photo Love can make us superhuman and go through any hell with the only hope of seeing our beloved one. All that remained of Tork's beloved was a photo he kept. The body of his Lisa was never found under the rubble of Mariupol... Tork went through Azovstal and was captured, where Lisa remained with him in the photo and in his heart. But he has hope: she is alive. Three days of happiness At first sight, they realized that they love each other. But they didn't have time to become married in peacetime. At the beginning of the war, border guards Andrii and Valeriia defend Mariupol from different sides. They meet only in the shelter of the notorious Azovstal. That's where, in between battles and shelling, the couple became married. But they were not destined to live happily ever after. A trench for lovers At the beginning of the war, a couple in love decides to stay together no matter what's going on around.So they go to defend the country together, joining the ranks of the Armed Forces.
Now she is a military medic with the call sign "Swallow" and he is a rifleman with the call sign "Baker". So later, in the trenches under fierce shelling, the couple dreams of not only surviving and winning, but also getting married.