Month: December 2025

— Well, how much did you click up today?” Sergey’s voice from the hallway was rough, soaked through with street-cold and fatigue. “Come on, quit playing with your toys—I’m hungry.” Marina didn’t answer. She only pressed her headset tighter to her ear, peering at the four faces divided by thin gray lines on her monitor. […]

It all started with little things. So quietly you barely noticed—almost “family-like.” “Lena, sunshine, could you help me?” Galina Petrovna always called at the worst possible moment, as if she could sense when I’d just sat down after work. “The utility bill came in, and my pension won’t stretch to the end of the month. […]

Diana never liked Sunday evenings. It was supposed to be a day off—a time to unwind, have a quiet dinner with her husband—but instead there was a knock at the door, heavy as a verdict. She already knew: it was Inna. And sure enough. On the threshold stood her sister-in-law in her usual style: stiletto […]

— “Your husband can celebrate his birthday without you. You go—go meet my daughter,” my mother-in-law declared brazenly. Victoria slowly lifted her eyes from the colorful gift boxes she had been carefully arranging on the table. In the doorway stood Evelina Markovna—her mother-in-law—wearing an expensive burgundy-wine-colored dress. — “Excuse me, WHAT?” Victoria set aside the […]

Galina Petrovna stepped over the threshold of our apartment like she owned the place, and I realized—what I’d feared most was starting. “Darya, pack your things,” my mother-in-law said, not bothering with a greeting. “You’re moving back in with us. We’re selling this apartment.” I froze with a cup of coffee in my hand. Artyom, […]

Anna stood at the stove, stirring chicken fillet in a creamy sauce in a frying pan. Behind her she could hear voices—her husband Viktor was greeting guests in the entryway. Today his colleagues were coming over for dinner with their wives, and she’d been cooking for three hours straight. “Just please let it get through […]

The apartment went to Dasha from her grandmother when the girl turned twenty-four. A bright two-bedroom place with a view of the park. The inheritance was оформed quickly—there were no disputes, and no other heirs either. She received the documents six months after her grandmother’s death, as required by law. She simply came to the […]

Are you seriously going to serve this to the guests for the anniversary?” Larisa Pavlovna said with disgust, poking her fork into the salad her daughter-in-law had just made. Nastya froze with a towel in her hands. She had been preparing the праздничный table for her husband’s thirtieth birthday for four hours now, and only […]