Tell your mother to never set foot in our house again! She has her favorite grandchildren and her darling little son; let her hover around them instead.

Mom, come on, someone came to see you!” said fifteen-year-old Ksenia to her mother. At that moment, Vera was sitting at a table in her bedroom, sorting through work papers and listening to music through headphones to avoid being distracted by the noise coming from the neighboring apartment, where renovation had been ongoing for the […]

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Kostik, don’t invite your wife to the birthday, we don’t want to see her,” Nadya heard her mother-in-law’s words.

Nadezhda sat in the kitchen, thoughtfully sorting through sugar grains on the table. Silence surrounded her, only interrupted by the hum of the refrigerator, which disrupted the strange, oppressive atmosphere. Life should have been perfect. She and her husband had their own apartment — though it was initially a down payment, it was their own […]

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— Hang in there, your little wife will finish building the house, and then you can leave — I read the letter from my mother-in-law.

We’ll soon start on the finishing touches. We’ve almost completed the construction,” my husband told me one evening as we were getting ready for bed. “So, the renovation is up next?” I said as I rubbed cream on my hands, working it into my fingers and wrists. “Yes. Hard to believe, isn’t it?” Arkadiy settled […]

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