Fifteen short stories with an unexpected ending, eight of which illustrated by young artists, ranging over three different genres: drama, thriller and humor. Past, present and future provide the background for men, women, murderers, drug addicts, mad scientists, aliens and tamed or very dangerous animals. The author, with his dry style that cuts the superfluous, is inspired by the writer Fredric Brown's "short stories" and the TV series "The Twilight Zone" screenwriter and director Rod Serling, by letting the reader's attention to focus on how thin is that ice layer on which our daily life rests, more or less safe.