Maria’s white dress flowed over her figure in waves of expensive silk. She stood before the mirror, unable to believe her happiness. Today she was marrying Ivan. The very same Vanya who, three years ago, had literally saved her from loneliness. “Mashechka, are you ready?” her mother peeked into the room, her eyes glistening suspiciously. […]
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Alice stood at the stove, stirring buckwheat in a pot. The same dish for the third day in a row. The fridge was empty, payday was still a week away, and the last of her money had gone to rent. “Buckwheat again?” Yaroslav walked into the kitchen and grimaced in displeasure. “Are we completely broke […]
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A message like that came to her husband’s phone. Tatyana, seeing the note from her sister-in-law, boldly opened it and decided to read. But after learning what her husband’s sister had written, she didn’t even know how to react. The relatives’ audacity was off the charts. “Again? Just like that? She simply states it as […]
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— “And what’s this?” Igor carelessly tossed a crumpled scrap of paper onto the kitchen table in front of Sveta. A receipt from a cosmetics store. He held it between two fingers as if it were too filthy to touch—a piece of damning evidence proving a monstrous crime. His voice was calm, even tired, which […]
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The evening in the surgical ward dragged on unbearably long, as if time had slowed and the air had become thick and heavy, saturated with the smell of antiseptics and medicine. In the corner of the dimly lit nurses’ room, under the glow of a weak lamp, sat Ekaterina Sokolova—slender, with bright eyes and tousled […]
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“Seriozha, for heaven’s sake, what is she wearing?” Tamara Pavlovna’s voice rang with a venomous sweetness she made no attempt to conceal. “That dress is from a flea market. I saw one just like it last Saturday at a reseller’s stall. At most — five hundred.” I quietly adjusted the collar of my blue dress […]
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