“Get away from me immediately! I can’t stand my sister and her kids anymore!” “Sveta, get out of my apartment—right now!” I can’t put up with my sister and her brats any longer. In a small town near Vladimir, where the morning shouts of the market mix with the smell of fresh rolls, my life […]
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It had been only three weeks since we buried our mother, and my brother had already called an appraiser for the house. In the yard of our parents’ home in Volgograd, apples were dropping one after another, thudding dully against the ground. The house—a small two-room place from the 1970s with a wooden veranda—seemed smaller […]
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Love checked the bank app notifications while she waited for the bus. Her salary as a sales manager at a large IT company allowed for a comfortable life—eighty thousand a month plus bonuses. Igor worked as a mechanic at a factory, earned about thirty thousand, and didn’t make much effort to look for anything better. […]
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Victoria had always thought of herself as a kind, responsive woman. When she married Konstantin three years ago, her relationship with his mother, Lyudmila Georgievna, was quite friendly. Her mother-in-law often dropped by, helped with housework, and Victoria genuinely appreciated the support. The first time she was asked to hand over her bank card for […]
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