I write where the personal does not end with the individual, but continues through time, memory and others. This is where I gather books, texts and projects — and the traces words leave behind.
Not a template. Not a blog. Not a cheap personal website.
I write about those places where the personal meets time — where memory is not history, but an experience that continues to speak.
I care about language when it is strong. And when it is not afraid to be uncomfortable.
I live and work in Bulgaria. I publish my own texts and write lyrics for songs. I work on books, ideas and projects that are still searching for their form.
I look for those stories that rarely receive attention — in memory, in silence and in the things left unsaid.
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The personal meets time
Here, memory is not an archive, but a living presence that continues to speak.
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Language is not a safe place
The focus is on words when they carry nerve, clarity and a refusal to remain harmless.
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Books, songs, ideas
Texts and projects searching for their form without losing their inner weight.
Book
If Your Brother Doesn’t Laugh… It Isn’t Funny
“If Your Brother Doesn’t Laugh…” is a book that is not merely read — it is experienced.
Between sarcasm, social satire and lyrical prose, the texts move along the blade of Bulgarian reality — from apartment blocks to London, from supermarket checkouts to personal “handmade” happiness.
This is neither a novel nor classical poetry. It is an anthology of genre-fluid texts — essays, mini-stories, poetic prose and publicistic writing — blending humor with existential sadness, personal experience with social observation.
Modern Bulgarian lyrical prose with a publicistic voice and a therapeutic function.
Three parts, three different movements of the voice.
Part I — Observations, Absurdity and Social Irony
When everyday life begins to resemble satire.
Short texts in which the world around us is seen through sharp humor and sarcastic sensitivity. Neighbors, modern trends, social absurdities and human weaknesses turn into small satirical scenes — sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortably precise.
Here, grotesque meets self-irony, and laughter often leaves behind a slight unease. Because in these miniatures, the reader almost always recognizes their own time.
Part II — Lyricism and Inner Spaces
When words begin to listen.
This part gathers short poetic texts built from images, metaphors and personal experience. Here, language becomes quieter, but also deeper.
Memory, love, doubt and time turn into an inner conversation. This is poetry that seeks not so much answers as movement — that almost invisible movement of thought and feeling.
Part III — Essays on Memory, Morality and Human Worth
When questions about the world become personal.
The final part gathers longer texts and reflections on the contemporary world, history and the moral choices people make. Here, personal stories meet public questions, and observation gradually turns into reflection.
The themes are compassion, responsibility, friendship, homeland and the quiet voice of human conscience. This is the space where the book stops observing and begins asking — and searching for meaning beyond the noise of time.
Selected Excerpts
Writing is a way for memory to continue
Three entry points into the voice of the book. I chose three short excerpts — one from each part — so the site can reveal the irony, lyricism and moral weight of the book without giving away too much.
Part I · “Evolution”
The new rituals of modern life
“...Then came a 13-centimeter dog, branded in a Gucci harness and boutique leash, in the hand of a freshly trained 90-kilo man.
After him came the woman of his bright future. Judging by her horoscope, the planets must have been in strong astro-facts today.
I suddenly felt awkward... Standing among those people with my archaic name Petya, my pink sneakers and complete lack of ascendant sign. I got embarrassed and left. I went looking for éclairs. Only they had apparently become poisonous and full of palm oil.
They offered me a natural bar, free of gluten, free of colorants, preservatives, sugars, sweeteners — free of everything. Created with radiant energy directly from the Japanese sun.
I couldn’t tell: was I supposed to eat it, or raise it?”
Social irony with modern absurdity.Part II · “Anthology”
Lyricism that thinks
“How could we ever meet at all,
if I am Russian literature,
and you are haiku?
There is no such anthology,
which means it is not impossible…
They just haven’t created us yet.”
Brief, clean and with its own acoustic quality.Part III · “Bulgaria’s Forgotten Hero”
When the book stops observing and begins asking
“Before you and me, my friend, there looms the ‘great’ possibility of remaining trapped in the dark.
You are probably thinking: ‘There are no superhumans left in this wasteland, in our Bulgaria sinking into darkness…’ and a claustrophobic heaviness lodges itself in your chest.
We have become so deeply lost that fewer and fewer things still matter.
Do you realize it?”
Moral nerve and public weight.
Video Interview
In Conversation
Television 7/8 · The Screenwriters’ Show
An interview in which the words step out of the page.
The professional path, the experience and the lessons that work leaves behind. Instead of a conversational tone, this section offers a clean and professional entry point into the material.
A conversation on Darik Radio about the book “If Your Brother Doesn’t Laugh… It Isn’t Funny”, writing, and the journey of a text from the page into real dialogue with the audience.
Responses and words from people who recognize the strength of a text not only by what is written, but by the trace it leaves behind. Thank you to the people who shared their words about this book.
Niki Kanchev
Journalist • Television Host
Welcome to the World of P.P.!
You are going to have a wonderful time, because it is a great gift to read something written by a person with an X-ray eye, a razor-sharp mind, and insights that not everyone can reach.
Petya takes you by the hand — and, if you allow her, by the throat too — and sends you down verbal cobblestones and roller coasters so dizzyingly that your head will spin.
For her, it is no problem to take you from the village of Resselets to the gas chambers of the Holocaust, through Heathrow and, for good measure, to Studentski Grad.
Congratulations to us on a powerful new Bulgarian author!
Tenyo Gogov
Screenwriter • Television Host • Writer
I know only two people of this breed — people you drop into completely unfamiliar waters and, after a while, they start swimming with the fish. She is one of the two. Apparently they produce them deliberately in boutique series so they do not frustrate too many different professional guilds.
But I have seen Petya (or Pi, as I call her) swim confidently in communications, in cybersecurity, in media, in PR, and the last time she amazed me — she went and became an oil broker for NATO and other major clients on a fuel exchange in Monaco!
Now an invisible hand is lowering Pi into the waters of writing... from here, you can imagine for yourselves what will happen! Words love her, and she loves them too. If this love affair lasts, and Petya does not decide to become an astronaut or a fire dancer, I explicitly apologize to Georgi Gospodinov, ha-ha!
And finally — Pi, I keep telling you that the title of this book is not true. It will not make your brother laugh. It will make him smile. Because talent and a pure heart always do that!
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How far would you go when the truth could cost you everything —
and the prize could change your life?
The Conscience Game is a television social experiment that explores one of the most difficult territories of human behavior — moral choice.
A group of participants enters a specially created environment where they are confronted with situations that test their values, loyalty and personal boundaries.
Unlike formats in which tension comes from hidden roles, deception or exposure, the center here is different: what happens when winning does not always align with what is right.
As the game progresses, trust between participants begins to fracture, alliances become fragile, and every decision acquires a moral cost.
At the center of the format stands a mysterious artifact — The Witness, whose role is rare but exceptionally powerful. At certain moments, it can change the course of the game and reveal hidden truths.
The Conscience Game combines elements of a social experiment, strategic television game and psychological competition, but places the focus on something deeper than strategy: the question of who you are when no choice is easy.
Visual Atmosphere
Moral tension in a controlled environment
The format is built as a clean, almost sterile space in which every choice stands out sharply, and psychological tension replaces external noise.
The WitnessThe artifact at the center of the game — a symbol of truth, consequence and irreversible choice.The Revelation ZonePersonal truth, memory and emotional pressure become part of the drama itself.The Mirror RoomA space for inner confrontation, where a person is left alone with their own decision.Format IdentityA visual key to the concept: isolation, choice, observation and the price of truth.The Game ArenaA controlled, minimalist environment in which relationships between participants become part of the test itself.
Original concept: Petya Peeva
The detailed structure and mechanics of the format are available upon request.
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