Snezhana walked along the edge of the ancient forest, as if treading the boundary between worlds — past and present, fairy tale and reality. Beneath her feet, the fresh earth squelched, soaked by a recent rain that, like a wise mentor, left behind a generous gift — mushrooms. The air was filled with the scent […]
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Every evening, like clockwork, Olya performed a bedtime ritual for her daughter—five-year-old Oksana, a little girl with huge doll-like eyes and a heart full of childhood dreams. But this time, putting her to bed turned into a battle: Oksana squirmed, fidgeted, pushed the blanket away, and suddenly, with a serious expression, whispered: — Mom, tell […]
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Deep in an old village, lost among endless fields and whispering pines, stood a house with peeling paint and a roof slightly sagging under the weight of time. In this house, like a root grown deep into the earth, lived Zakhar Mikhailovich for seven decades — a man whose soul was filled with silence, wisdom, […]
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The darkness of the December night thickened outside the windows, while inside the old, dilapidated house, a tense anticipation prevailed. Behind the kitchen door, on the floor stained by long-unwashed linoleum, children crowded together — three little ones huddled close like nestlings. Their eyes, full of hope and hunger, were fixed on the crack in […]
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— Dash, I wanted to talk, — Semyon started cautiously as soon as she stepped over the apartment threshold. He stood in the middle of the hallway, shifting from foot to foot, and his look — guilty yet filled with some inappropriate determination — immediately stirred a dull irritation in Darya. She silently took off […]
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“Ir, how much longer?” Kirill’s deliberately calm voice, though tinged with barely concealed nervous trembling, cut through the cozy evening silence. Irina, sitting in a deep armchair under the floor lamp, didn’t immediately lift her eyes from the stack of bills and advertising brochures she had just taken out of the mailbox and was sorting […]
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