A mysterious case happened in the state of Michigan with a 59-year-old woman named Sloan, who always believed that one day she would win the lottery. Several times a month she bought tickets, choosing them not at random, but guided by signs of fate. But that day was different.

Sometimes trouble can turn into happiness. Sofya and Pavlik Shirokov knew this firsthand. After all, their strangest New Year became the happiest. But first things first.

Many children have unusual friends. Someone has a toy, someone has a character from a book, movie or cartoon (and maybe more than one), someone else has someone else. And Zoya Vorontsova had a fairy friend.

Alice Vishnevskaya was a kind, but a little selfish girl. She also always wanted to have the best of everything. As Alice thought, the best should also be the most expensive.

Nastya didn't say anything, but silently went to her room to pack her things. No, she loved her grandmother, but she was almost fourteen, and she wanted to celebrate New Year's Eve in a special way.

The eldest, Demid, had always been a quiet boy, loved to read, and was going to become a historian. The youngest, Maxim, on the contrary, could not be put down for books. He could never sit still and in his seven years tried all kinds of children's transportation. Rollerblades, bicycle, skateboard, Max was familiar with all of this firsthand. And now it was his turn to ski, but things didn't go according to plan.

We happened to form a rock band called "Chance". One evening we rehearsed in the basement of our club. It should be noted that our school is ancient and has a rich history, so the basements in it are large, dark and depressingly overhanging over those who like to walk there... So, one of our comrades wanted to study the basement adjacent to the "stage" for the property located there.

I used to have a comrade named Kolka Toporkov. From the very school bench, we were on each other's side. But now I know very little about the life of my best friend of my youth. The reason for this is a strange and terrible event that happened a few years ago and turned our lives upside down.

We woke up early, didn't wash up. We were all gathered in front of the mayor. He told us about the idea: "We need to make the city more beautiful!" Improve the view, get rid of traffic jams, give new apartments to everyone.

An entry with a short description of the experiment leaked by some anonymous source instantly went viral. The headline was provocative but succinct: “Photons travel through time. The half-fictionalized summary statement of the photon observation stated that it had spent what appeared to be “time backwards” inside a hydrogen atom.