Anna lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, trying to calm her racing heartbeat. Just a few minutes ago, she had experienced one of the most terrifying moments of her life — a conflict with her own husband, Alexander, and his mother, Olga Petrovna. Their little daughter Sonya was sleeping peacefully in her crib, […]
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It all started with that ill-fated cauldron. My husband Anton bought it a week ago and hasn’t stopped being happy about it since. A real Uzbek cast-iron cauldron, twelve liters. It cost as much as my monthly salary, but he was as happy as a child with a new toy. “Len, can you imagine what […]
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— Did you put my things in the storage closet? — Olga’s voice rang out like a fork scraping an empty plate. — Because they shouldn’t be lying around in the children’s room, — Irina replied calmly, but with a chill, drying her hands on a waffle towel. — This isn’t a children’s room, it’s […]
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Lena stood in front of the crooked little house, clutching a crumpled piece of paper with the address in her hand. The wind tickled her neck, ruffling her light jacket, and inside she felt empty—like the windows of this abandoned dwelling. Twenty years had passed inside the walls of an orphanage, and now she was […]
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Ekaterina slipped off her work sneakers and breathed a sigh of relief. After ten hours of hard work in the sewing workshop, her back ached, and her fingers tingled from constant machine work. The room was stuffy — orders for school uniforms kept pouring in one after another, and the seamstresses had to stay late. […]
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Raisa nervously paced from one corner of the room to another — her heart felt unbearably heavy, as if everything inside her had been turned upside down. Yesterday she had been at the notary’s office… And now she couldn’t understand what was happening to her. Her father had died. The very same father she hadn’t […]
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Andrey pushed the apartment door open with his shoulder since his hands were full. In one hand — a briefcase, in the other — a box with a new smartphone he had bought on the way home. Inside, everything tightened with a familiar feeling of guilt, but he forced himself to straighten his shoulders. Successful […]
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Nelly, no longer wanting to depend on others, asked the driver to get out of the car and took the wheel herself. She had always believed that a change of activity was the best remedy for stress. And today had been filled with so many emotions that it could have lasted a whole week. The […]
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Lida had felt since childhood that her life would be different — not like everyone else’s. What happened long ago left a deep mark on her — both literally and metaphorically. As a child, she survived a terrible accident that changed everything: her face was covered with burn scars, and her mother’s life became a […]
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— Daughter, don’t worry about me. Right now, you must not quarrel with your father. Please, don’t try to defend me.” Julia remembered these words from her mother forever. She was only fourteen then, and in her young heart, it felt as if the world had collapsed overnight. Her mother’s words sounded like a warning, […]
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