Let’s stop by the church,» suggested Polina. Vadim looked at his wife and smiled. They had been married for nine years, and throughout this time, they had been trying to have a child. They visited doctors and underwent examinations everywhere they could. They did everything they could, took every possible test, but nothing helped. Polina […]
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Tamara Ivanovna walked slowly along the shelves of the huge supermarket, examining the brightly packaged products. She came here every day, like going to work. She didn’t need many groceries to feed a large family — she didn’t have one. So, every evening, the elderly woman would escape her loneliness into the brightly lit shopping […]
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Please, daughter, pity me,» I begged. «I haven’t eaten bread for three days, and I have no money left.» Tears were running down my cheeks, covered with fine wrinkles. In my hands, I only held a bag with empty bottles. «But how can this be?» they answered. «This is a bread stand. We don’t take […]
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The snow was falling in thick, heavy flakes, as if it was trying to cover the earth with a white blanket as quickly as possible. The evening was damp and cold—the sharp wind pushed the snow across the asphalt, and the streetlights only illuminated the nearest steps, while everything else disappeared into the gray mist. […]
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