Artyom, my husband, warned me almost a month in advance about the upcoming anniversary of his most respected colleague. The celebration was scheduled for Saturday, in the luxurious banquet hall of “Eden,” the most pretentious restaurant in the city. For the world of big finance and champagne toasts, it was just another event, but for […]
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A quiet village evening wrapped the surroundings in a gentle dusk when Antonina Semyonovna—whom everyone simply called Granny Tonya—stepped out of her little old house and, walking up to the neighbor’s fence, rapped three times with her knuckles on the windowpane. The glass answered with a dull but familiar sound. A moment later the surprised, […]
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Ksenia slowly ran her hand over the old wallpaper. She had spent her childhood in this apartment—her grandmother often invited her over, taught her to cook, told stories from her life. Now these walls held only memories—Grandma had passed away six months ago. “Still sitting in this wreck?” Mikhail’s voice pulled Ksenia from her thoughts. […]
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— Can you believe it, Masha? Yulia’s parents bought her an apartment! — Irina was nervously twirling a strand of dyed blond hair, the phone wedged between her shoulder and ear. What a big apartment your parents bought you, she thought enviously, eyeing her brother’s wife’s new place. Her slender fingers with a perfect pastel […]
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