Heavy Metal Magazine #4

In the frostbitten woods of Krolówka, Poland, a gathering of Soviet and Eastern European apparatchiks convenes for a hunting party, their rifles and cold smiles masking decades of buried trauma. As the hunt begins, each man recounts a personal memory tied to the looming presence of Vassili Alexandrovitch Tchevtchenko, a figure whose shadow stretches across their lives and the crumbling regime they served.

In "null," a lone traveler boards a mysterious bus, only to find that inserting a coin into the fare slot triggers a sudden, disorienting shrink—so small he vanishes into the slot itself. The story unfolds with eerie precision, turning a simple commute into a surreal descent into the unknown.