Day: October 26, 2025

Liliya bought an apartment at twenty-six. She’d saved for five years while working as a manager at a trading company. Every kopeck went into savings: she gave up entertainment, wore old clothes, economized on everything. When she finally signed the purchase contract, her hands trembled with happiness. A one-room place on the edge of the […]

Yulia set the kettle on the table and took out some bread—the morning was beginning as usual. A fine October drizzle misted the window; a gray sky hung over the city. Yulia turned on the stove, heated a frying pan, and took eggs from the fridge. Artyom sat at the table, scrolling through something on […]

Chapter 1. A Monologue of the Sky The sky over the city darkened in a matter of moments, as if someone above had decided to draw heavy, leaden curtains across the last rays of the departing day. The air, only recently filled with the scents of asphalt and a distant blooming park, grew thick and […]