— Anna Mikhailovna, gather your personal belongings. You no longer work at the company. Igor didn’t even look away from the monitor screen as he said this calmly, as if talking about someone else. Twelve years of working together, twelve years side by side — and now he spoke as if they were strangers. — […]
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Grigory nervously paced around his spacious room, furnished with tasteless, aggressive luxury — the kind he adored and his wife Marina despised. But now the interior was deeply indifferent to him. A scheme kept spinning in his mind — a perfect plan, as he thought, capable of making him the sole and complete owner of […]
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Fetka instinctively covered his face with his hand and curled up into a ball out of habit. But a moment later — snap! — he dashed out of the house. Nothing special had happened: Dad had “overdone it” again. And when he overdid it, he became… how to put it mildly — completely unpredictable. Mom […]
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My husband decided to take a time-out; he was tired of the family and the relationship. While he was resting, I found myself. He didn’t call even once. Didn’t check if there was food for our son or me, didn’t ask if I could at least pay the utility bills for the month he still […]
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— Maxim, look what a beautiful girl! — Hello, I’m Natasha. What’s your name? The blue-eyed little girl with funny curls looked straight at the young twenty-five-year-old man. — I’m Nikolai, and this is my son Maxim. — Nikolai, do you have a wife? Nikolai’s wife, overhearing this, burst out laughing. Coming from a five-year-old […]
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— Misha, tell your wife to turn the music down, — his sister Marina’s voice barely hid her irritation. — Mom’s got a headache because of your… well, how do you call it… avant-garde. I lowered the volume. Not because Marina asked me to, but because of my mother-in-law, who was already pressing a finger […]
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Lena carefully moved the tiny vase with a sprig of gypsophila to the center of the table so that nothing would block her view of her mother-in-law’s face. The café was quiet, almost like a temple, and even the sounds were muffled — as if it was forbidden to speak loudly or express emotions too […]
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“Hi, dear, tired today?” asked Mikhail, helping his wife take off her coat and boots. “A little,” Olga replied. “And my head feels kind of heavy today. I don’t know if I’m getting sick or what…” “We should take your temperature,” her husband fussed. “You lie down for now, and I’ll bring the thermometer. I’ve […]
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— That’s it! I’m leaving for a younger woman and we’ll split the apartment. How much longer are you going to keep spending my money! — said Yuri to his already unloved wife. But he didn’t expect what happened next. — Yur, where are you going? — Svetlana peeked out from the kitchen, wiping her […]
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On the city streets, where the pavement was covered with a thick carpet of golden and crimson leaves, late autumn had settled. The air was clear and cool, with a slight fragility, as if it could shatter in your hands like glass. The sun no longer warmed as generously as in summer, but its rays […]
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