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The text message arrived just at the moment Emma sat down on her favorite bench in the small city park. She glanced at the phone screen — and immediately frowned. Only from him! What does he want? That old stingy bore who still thinks he has the right to write? She looked around the park. […]

“Have you not heard?” Her voice trembled, as if something inside it was cracking. “What exactly?” I asked, already holding the handle of the front door with one hand. The bag with medicines almost slipped from my fingers. Lidiya Pavlovna, 84 years old, a widow with eyes full of lived years and unspoken sorrows, stood […]

The phone vibrated as if someone was trying to punch a hole in the table with it. I looked at the screen — “Mom.” The fourth missed call in half an hour. Usually, she didn’t pressure me like this, unless she wanted to discuss how I had forgotten to congratulate our cousin aunt on her […]

Valentina woke up to silence. Strange how quickly you get used to loneliness at fifty-eight. For thirty-five years, every morning began with Peter’s grumbling: the coffee wasn’t strong enough, or the shirt wasn’t perfectly ironed. And now — silence, piercing and cold, like the wind outside the rented room’s window. She slowly got up from […]

I never thought that at 62 I would become something like a savior. And I certainly could not have imagined that this incident would change my life so much and fill it with new meaning. That late September day was unusually warm and sunny. Autumn was already leaving its first leaves on the asphalt, smelling […]

— Aliska! — a loud, hoarse voice of the stepfather sounded from deep inside the apartment. “Awake,” the girl thought heavily. “Here it comes again…” Quickly looking around, she grabbed a hoodie, threw it over her shoulders, and ran out of the house into the yard. — Ali, where are you going? — came the […]

When Sofia announced that she was going to marry a man with a disability, her loved ones seemed to lose the power of speech. Her family was in shock, her friends were stunned, and distant relatives gathered for an informal family council as if deciding a matter of national importance. Everyone felt it was their […]

Every day, Anya walked home hoping that Max would come back. She knew he didn’t have the keys—he had left them when he left. Yet she still hoped that he would open the door and she would see his sneakers in the hallway. But the miracle didn’t happen this time either. They had lived together […]