For your eyes the collection of stories and novellas "Chance Stories". It brings together works from a wide range of genres: from alternate history, urban fantasy, and mysticism to military science fiction, space opera, and cyberpunk. The protagonists of Chance Stories are ordinary travelers, seekers of adventure, vampires, soldiers, weary city dwellers, planet raiders, and even zombies. They could have stepped off their paths hundreds of times, yet they keep moving forward. What drives them? Love, death, emptiness, the abyss? Or chance? Pure, unbiased chance. Every world the characters traverse is permeated with stories — grim and very grim, some sending shivers down your spine, others drawing out nervous laughter. These are tales of remarkable destinies that invite you into their realms. Welcome, Master Chance.