Category: ДЕТИ

After getting married for the third time, Serafima Grigoryevna got into the habit of visiting her son and daughter-in-law. Her new husband, Igor, was nine years younger, and she was very proud of that. “If a younger man looked my way, then I must be a beauty,” she would think, glancing at herself in the […]

Oleg sat at the very back desk in the stuffy lecture hall, wilting from the heat and the lecturer’s monotonous droning. May was in full swing—so were the last semester, the last lectures, the final hours before long-awaited freedom. A lazily humming fan barely pushed the warm air around; it felt more like a reminder […]

“Where on earth is my hairdryer? You can’t find anything in this mess! Lev, did you see a little blue box with the hairdryer? And where’s the iron? Now what am I supposed to do? I swear I labeled all the boxes, and now you can’t tell what’s what. Lyova, are you hearing me?” Zhenya […]

Lena sat at the kitchen table, twirling a pen between her fingers. In front of her lay a blank sheet of paper, and she couldn’t bring herself to write the first word of her résumé. For three months her job hunt had led nowhere—either her qualifications didn’t fit, or the pay was miserable, or the […]

Nadezhda stood by the bank window, clutching the account statement in her hands. The numbers blurred before her eyes from excitement. Seven million. A full seven million rubles. — Nadya, well, what is it? — Evgeny came up behind her, peering over his wife’s shoulder. — Is everything correct? — Yes, Zhenya… — Nadezhda’s voice […]

In a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Voronezh, life moved along in its usual quiet way. A microdistrict where everything was meant to remain as it always had: quiet, respectable, with no unnecessary noise. Here lived Daniil Landyshev—a widower, the owner of a small logistics company, a respected man who was always proud of […]

James Caldwell possessed everything most men spend their lives chasing—money, stature, a glass-and-stone mansion tucked into the hills beyond San Francisco. He’d built one of Silicon Valley’s dominant cybersecurity firms over twenty relentless years, architecting a fortress that guarded other people’s secrets. Yet the echo in his grand rooms never softened. Success filled the house; […]

Lyuba closed the door and leaned her back against it. The apartment greeted her with its familiar quiet and the scent of fresh renovations. Her parents had done their best—the two-room place in a modern neighborhood was any graduate’s dream. “Finally home,” Lyuba whispered, kicking off her shoes in the hallway. The doorbell rang unexpectedly. […]