Day: September 18, 2025

Oleg sat at the very back desk in the stuffy lecture hall, wilting from the heat and the lecturer’s monotonous droning. May was in full swing—so were the last semester, the last lectures, the final hours before long-awaited freedom. A lazily humming fan barely pushed the warm air around; it felt more like a reminder […]

“Where on earth is my hairdryer? You can’t find anything in this mess! Lev, did you see a little blue box with the hairdryer? And where’s the iron? Now what am I supposed to do? I swear I labeled all the boxes, and now you can’t tell what’s what. Lyova, are you hearing me?” Zhenya […]

Lena sat at the kitchen table, twirling a pen between her fingers. In front of her lay a blank sheet of paper, and she couldn’t bring herself to write the first word of her résumé. For three months her job hunt had led nowhere—either her qualifications didn’t fit, or the pay was miserable, or the […]