A Trap for a Thought-Form. Playing Another Reality. M.A. Bulgakov award

A Trap for a Thought-Form. Playing Another Reality. M.A. Bulgakov award
Alexandra Kryuchkova

It is a mystical thriller about finding Love and creating a Happy Reality. The ancient Mansion with a Portal to Other Worlds hosts book presentations and a 40-day workshop on Magic. Alice, unreflecting in the mirrors, tries to unravel the secret of the gloomy Guardian and finds in the Dungeon a theater, bloody props and a doll, exact replica of herself. Will she finish her own novel and get out to be happy? Awards: “The Looking Glass” after L. Carroll and “Master” after M.A. Bulgakov.

A Trap for a Thought-Form

Playing Another Reality. M.A. Bulgakov award

Alexandra Kryuchkova

Translated by Alexandra Kryuchkova

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Age 18+

© Alexandra Kryuchkova, 2022

ISBN 978-5-0056-6062-6

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A TRAP for a THOUGHT-FORM

a philosophical & mystical thriller
in the “PLAYING ANOTHER REALITY” series,

the winner of the following literary competitions and awards:

“MASTER” 2020
after М. А. BULGAKOV

(Moscow City Organization
of the Union of Writers of Russia
together with NP “Literary Republic”)

“The LOOKING GLASS” 2022
after Lewis CARROLL

(Open Literary Club “Response”)

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“Don’t multiply the entities beyond necessity…”

ABOUT THE BOOK

English edition №1

Original edition:

• ISBN 978-5-0056-0905-2, M.: – Izdatelskie resheniya, 2022. – 296 pages, illustrated.

• ISBN 978-5-386-08797-5, М.: – Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia, NP “Literary Republic”, 2021 – 256 pages.

• ISBN 978-5-0053-4071-9, М.: – Izdatelskie resheniya, 2021. – 260 pages.

Booktrailer: https://youtu.be/N17IxbsGgKQ

The Trap in brief

“Alchemical novel = Practicum of Secret Knowledge + Love in the mystical context of a puzzle plot on the verge of a detective story and even madness that keeps you in suspense until the last line…”

“Aren’t you the Magician yet? This book is for you! Forty wise and feasible tasks presented by Alice during the breaks of each chapter are a true wish-fulfillment marathon and a step-by-step guide to create your Happy Universe!”

“‘Is it bad to say what you feel?’ An amazing story of overcoming the fear of Love gives birth to the very Great Feeling, that prolongs life of both people and ghosts!”

“I was wandering inside a crystal with multifaceted mirrors, which reflected not so much the characters as myself. It’s an exciting feeling of touching Another Reality, an opportunity to look at life from unusual angles and to recode the future.”

“Does any creation have freedom of choice? Is the scenario rigidly fixed? Where do the glitches in the Matrix come from and how to surprise it? Does Love always defeat Death?

In the mysterious interweaving of realities, the author, as usual, in an accessible and concise way talks about the complex, however, each reader will find in the book exactly what he is ready to discover.”

Preface

This mystical story began when my great-grandfather, Viktor Ivanovich Glinsky-Safronov[1 - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Глинский-Сафронов,_Виктор_Иванович], listed on Wikipedia for his contribution to musical literature and culture, met the already famous writer Mikhail Bulgakov[2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bulgakov] at the Bolshoi Theater, where they both served the arts.

In the evenings, they used to return home together and often visited each other, since they lived nearby. My great-grandfather’s apartment, where I was born and lived as a child, is located in a house on Sadovo-Triumfalnaya street, right next to the Mayakovskaya metro station, practically on Tverskaya street, 3—5 minutes from the “bad flat” where Bulgakov lived.

I don’t know whether the mystique was passed on to me from my great-grandfather or his friend, the writer, or from my grandmother and her sisters with unambiguous names Margarita and Gella (yes, Gella, “whose beauty was spoiled only by a scar on her neck”[3 - As mentioned by M.A. Bulgakov in “The Master & Margarita”.]), because they repeatedly visited Bulgakov thanks to their father, but in my life, and, as a result, in the autobiographical poetry and novels about Another Reality, you can easily find brooms and stupas, star solitaire, spells to summon spirits and howling ghosts, Fridays the 13

, the Cat, and, in fact, Woland and Master[4 - Main characters of “The Master & Margarita” by M.A. Bulgakov.].

However, my name was Alice, my Cat was Lunar, my Master was not a writer, but the Magician, and my Woland materialized not on the Patriarch’s Ponds, but in a cafe on Rublyovka[5 - Luxury place not far from Moscow, where rich & famous people live.]. That period of my life now seems to be a vague past, which may never have happened, but…

…In September 2020, after going through the actually existing and functioning Portal (!) during a tour of the Bulgakov House Museum and Theater, the Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia and the Non-commercial Partnership “Literary Republic”, represented by Olga Boyarinova, agreed with the director of the Bulgakov House, Natalia Sklyarova, to hold a series of literary parties, at which I had the honor to make presentations of books by members of the Union of Writers of Russia, as well as to hold the Open Microphone competitions.

Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our parties were postponed until winter. We started finally, and our first night in the magical Mansion transferred the guests to Another Reality…

Do you think that the story I am going to tell you now is just a fairy tale, and no Portals really exist?

Well! Take a tour of Bulgakov House and wait for miracles!