“Go ahead and badmouth your mommy all you like, but if you say even one word about my mother that I don’t like—you’ll be out of my apartment on the spot! I won’t be tiptoeing around you, my dear!”

“Igor, forgive me, please, if I’m interrupting,” Tatyana Yevgenyevna’s voice was quiet, almost apologetic, as if she were asking not for a favor but for some great, unthinkable indulgence. She stood in the kitchen doorway, her dry, pigment-spotted hands clasped in front of her. “The door to my room… it creaks terribly. I got up […]

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“I told you from the very beginning why your mother wants us to live with her so badly, but you wouldn’t listen! Now you can pay her for everything yourself—she won’t see a single kopeck from me!”

“Kirill, this isn’t funny anymore. It’s not even sad. It’s just humiliating,” Inna said in an even, almost indifferent voice, looking not at her husband but at the cloudy streaks the drizzling November rain left on the glass. They were sitting at a corner table in a faceless chain café where they’d run away to […]

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“I’m sick of carrying you all on my back! Not a single kopeck anymore—go feed yourselves however you like!” Yana shouted, blocking the cards.

Yana pushed the apartment door open and immediately heard voices from the kitchen. Her husband Igor was talking with his mother—Valentina Stepanovna. The woman had arrived in the morning and settled in the kitchen, as usual. “So what’s going on with the TV?” Igor asked. “It’s gotten really old,” the mother-in-law complained. “The picture is […]

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— “If your mother dislikes what I do for a living so much, then why does she ask us for money every week?” the daughter-in-law decided to teach her mother-in-law a lesson

Marina sighed, staring at the computer screen. The numbers in the report blurred before her eyes—it was already eleven at night, and she was still at the office. Being the head of the marketing department at a large IT company demanded total commitment, but the pay matched the effort. At thirty-two, she earned more than […]

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