“Mom called. She’s complaining about life again. She’s exhausted by my brother’s family,” Igor said, washing the dishes. “Well, everyone gets what they deserve, right?” I replied, spooning my husband’s lunch into a container for work. “I’m just tired of hearing about the kids making noise and how cramped it is for all of them […]
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It so happened that little Taya’s parents divorced and left their daughter in the care of her grandmother, Agnessa. Taya’s mother went off to Saint Petersburg to be with a new lover who wanted nothing to do with another man’s child. Grandmother Agnessa sighed heavily and scolded her wayward daughter, but she took Taya in […]
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Olga was slowly stirring the buckwheat on the stove when the front door slammed so hard the glass in the display cabinets rattled. The September morning had only just begun, but her husband had already dashed off somewhere and come back in a near-frenzy. “Wife, have you lost it? Why doesn’t your card work?! I […]
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Lena had always known the value of her apartment. Not in rubles, but in the meaning her late father put into it when he said, “Daughter, this is your fortress. As long as you have your own place, you don’t have to bow to anyone.” The two-room apartment on the fourth floor of a panel-built […]
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