Natalia Yavlukhina’s experimental novella, “Ionites,” describes a midday journey through thirty-two stations and an attempt to break through the hypnagogic spaces of a city sown with fog and mirrors. Natalia Yavlukhina was born in 1986. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute. Her work has appeared in the journals “Flagi,” “Vozdukh,” “Znamya,” and others. In early 2022, her debut collection of poems, “Shining Tiredness” (M: Russky Gulliver), was published.