Lena stood by the window of her empty apartment, looking down at the courtyard where her children used to play. Misha was twenty now, working in St. Petersburg, and Katya was eighteen—a university student. The apartment felt huge and inhospitable without their laughter, without the constant rushing about, without the mountain of textbooks on the […]
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Monday at the spacious, sunlit offices of the agribusiness buzzed like a disturbed beehive. A wrap-up meeting was underway in the hall, but most people were already thinking about their own tasks. Suddenly the director—a sturdy man of about fifty named Vitaly Semyonovich, always impeccably dressed in a neat checkered shirt—raised his hand, calling for […]
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Kira stood in the doorway, holding grocery bags. Her face showed a mix of astonishment and indignation. Valery was pacing the living room, glancing at his watch from time to time. “Valera, you said the guests were coming on Saturday,” she said, carefully setting the bags on the floor. “Which Saturday? Today is Friday! In […]
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I’m 58, and I never expected an ordinary trip to buy a dress to turn into real drama—just two weeks before my only son’s wedding. I’d put the purchase off far too long, but at some point I realized: I couldn’t show up to Andrey’s wedding in everyday clothes. I needed something special—worthy of such […]
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Nika hadn’t been herself lately. Serious cracks had appeared in her relationship with her husband, and she didn’t know how to endure the agony of it. It all started with little things—like it usually does. After work Tolya began peppering her with poisonous remarks. His jokes were full of malice; every word cut deeper than […]
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On Saturday, Lera carefully tidied up the already clean apartment. Then she planned the menu and prepared the tastiest dishes, wanting to show Vyacheslav’s mother that she was a good homemaker. But when she went out to take out the trash, she ran into her neighbor on the landing. As usual, he was unshaven, but […]
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