Where scarlet petals burn, where a lonely man with a swan wing walks around the world, where life is wiser and more shameless than fiction, small stories are born. A reflection of our everyday life, funny and sad, they are about you and me and about those who make reality a little more magical than it really is. "Notes on the Sidelines" by Eileen O'Connor is an author's project by Elena Mikhalkova, based on publications in LiveJournal and Facebook, where the author has a total of more than 60,000 subscribers.