Dinner with a Surprise, or How a Spoon Became a Weapon Irina set the table with spoons, forks, knives, and checked once again that everything was in its proper place. Everything was perfect, just like in a restaurant. “But Gena wouldn’t even notice,” she thought with a self-amused smirk under her breath. He used to […]
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— Don’t talk nonsense! What do you mean—you won’t let me back in? Me! — Vitaly, with a surprised expression, stood in the doorway of his former apartment. «— You’re talking nonsense now. And why have you come here, huh? Where is it written, in what law, that some moral freaks—having indulged themselves on the […]
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In what do you mean—I’m not going with you?” Anton stood in the middle of the room, looking confused while holding a sausage sandwich in his hand. “You’re joking, aren’t you?” “No, my dear. I never even thought of it. What’s unclear to you? I’m going on this trip alone. Besides, I only paid for […]
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The village was almost extinct. Out of the eighteen houses, only two remained inhabited: in one, elderly Varvara lived; in the other — Stepan with Anastasia. They had no children, but they did have Mitrich the goat, three goats, chickens, and a garden, which they tended more out of habit than necessity. Everything they needed […]
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— There will be no wedding. Father is against a pauper in our family!” Sasha’s voice, my fiancé’s, pierced through the slightly open door. I was standing in the next room, already dressed in a white gown and clutching a bouquet of daisies that I had picked early that morning. My heart pounded wildly, and […]
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– Oh, Anna Alekseevna… A concert at the community center, exactly! You asked to be reminded, – Lenochka sang, glancing at the clock. – You’re right on time! The secretary knew perfectly well that if Anna Alekseevna had gone to the cemetery, she would completely forget everything else. She called in advance, gave warnings, kept […]
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Don’t expect to live here under Christ’s protection,” the stepfather’s voice cut through the silence like a knife. “Your mother is dead, and with her passing, all your privileges are over.” I stood in the entrance hall of the house I once considered my own, clutching the handle of an old suitcase. After three years […]
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— They say that hospital walls intensify love. Apparently, our case is different,” the wife said bitterly. “— I’ve always been honest with you, Ira,” her husband immediately replied. Sunlight shattered through the blinds, painting stripes on the pale green wall of the ward. Between these stripes, the shadows of the IV pole and medical […]
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Valentina stood in the middle of Yuri’s office, clutching a rag in her hands. The shelves, overloaded with old magazines, smelled of dust and something sour—like forgotten tea left in a cup. Tomorrow Yuri would turn sixty-six, and she had decided: it was time to tidy up his den. “There will be a surprise,” she […]
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And immediately he threw an empty shot glass at her, but missed. «Stop hitting me!» Oleg exclaimed irritably, addressing his wife, Irina. «I’m not a wooden stick, I’m a living person! If you want to keep going like this, you better go get some air! And stop raising your voice at me! Otherwise, you’ll regret […]
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