Every day, Anya walked home hoping that Max would come back. She knew he didn’t have the keys — he left them when he left. But still, she hoped she would open the door and see his sneakers in the hallway.

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 […]

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You spent all the money on your son, and now you want to live in my apartment?” I asked my mother-in-law, who showed up at the doorstep with suitcases.

Jingling keys in the lock, Margarita opened the apartment door. Voices came from the kitchen, and the familiar smell of borscht filled the hallway. Her heart started beating faster, and her teeth clenched involuntarily. Again. Viktoria Pavlovna had appeared in her home without warning. “Olezhka, what kind of pilaf is she making you? That’s not […]

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