Culmination of Summer

collection of short stories

September 2025 | 160 pages | sample EN

Deeply reflective prose with existential and socially critical overtones

Eleven stories. Eleven moments when time either holds its breath – or shatters. In prose that is both contemplative and sharp-edged, the protagonists confront exhaustion, silence, and their own shadows: in a garden center, on a running track, through the frozen stillness of a Mikulov winter, or beneath the looming silhouette of a nuclear power plant. The culmination of summer signals an apex – but also a shift, a fall, a reconciliation. This collection threads raw realism with inner lyricism, absurdity with a touch of the grotesque. Each story offers a crystal-clear cross-section of a place, a mood, or a relationship – spare of pathos, yet rich in understanding.