“Where’s the money we’ve been saving for the New Year’s table?” Olga asked, peering into the tin tea can that sat on the very top shelf of the kitchen cabinet. She rose onto her toes and stretched her arm as far as it would go, but her fingers met only the cold metal bottom. Her […]
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“ Tanya, can you believe our luck? Absolute jackpot—I’m still stunned. Vika called me half an hour ago, screaming into the phone like she’d been hit by a train. At first I thought something awful happened, I couldn’t even understand her. But then she told me what it was—and wow!” Sergey stormed into the kitchen […]
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Yana was climbing the stairs with a bag of groceries in her hands. The workday had been exhausting—she wanted nothing more than to get home, take a shower, and sink onto the couch. She unlocked the door and stopped dead on the threshold. Voices floated in from the kitchen. Igor—and his daughter, Anya. Yana quietly […]
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The holiday spread was laid out in Oksana’s apartment—the very place she had bought and turned into a home herself long before she ever married Igor. That tiny one-bedroom on the eighth floor of a gray nine-story panel building was, to her, the proudest achievement of her life. For three exhausting years she had saved […]
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