Day: October 5, 2025

A black car came to a silent stop by the massive wrought-iron gates. Beyond them began a short dead-end street of eight identical, solid houses, cut off from the rest of the world by a high brick wall. A small, self-contained kingdom. The security guard in a uniform jacket, bored in his glass booth, sauntered […]

“You must be joking,” Tatyana said, staring at Ivan Petrovich with her eyes wide. He shook his head. “No, I’m not. But I’ll give you time to think. Because the offer really isn’t a usual one. I can even guess what you’re thinking right now. Weigh everything, think it through properly—I’ll come back in a […]

In the atrium of the city’s mightiest corporate tower—the flagship lobby of one of the nation’s largest conglomerates—life moved with its usual ceremonial rush. Morning flipped an unseen switch: as the first sunlight slid through the wall-high panes of glass, a fresh tide of ambition, transactions, and ego spilled across the space. The marble didn’t […]

— “Maksim, when are you finally going to start looking for a job?” Raisa Vasilyevna asked her son-in-law, who was lying on the little couch in the living room in front of the TV. The man only looked at his mother-in-law condescendingly and snorted, as if a pesky mosquito had bothered him. He didn’t like […]