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— Larisa, just a little bit more, come on,» Gleb encouraged his wife, who could barely drag her legs. Each step seemed like her final effort before complete exhaustion. The illness drained her strength like an invisible vampire, consuming the last bits of her energy. Gleb occasionally glanced at her with a look of guilt, […]

— Have you chosen anything? — the voice sounded soft, yet with a hint of involvement, as if the waitress had been watching him from behind the counter for a long time. Andrey finally tore himself away from the roadside café menu, where he had stopped to grab a bite during his lunch break. His […]

Kolya, you won’t believe what happened today!» Anya practically flew into the apartment, beaming with joy. Her chestnut hair was disheveled from walking fast, and her cheeks were flushed from the March wind. Kolya looked up from his laptop. On the screen, an unfinished report—his boss had demanded it be submitted yesterday—was frozen. “What’s the […]

Lera pushed open the apartment door and, with a hint of satisfaction, kicked off her heels – an eight-hour workday had stretched into ten due to a sudden inspection. Yet, despite her fatigue, her mood remained buoyant. Naturally so – yesterday the realtor had announced that a buyer had finally been found for her premarital […]

Nadezhda, who had just turned 72, had lived her entire life in the village. For many years, she worked in the poultry house, where the grueling physical labor and endless household chores gradually wore down her health. In her old age, the woman had completely lost her sight, unable even to distinguish the silhouettes or […]

Mikhail stared thoughtfully at the monitor. His restaurant had just turned one month old, and he couldn’t yet afford to hire professional security or a security service. Of course, he fully understood that employees sometimes take a little extra—some take more, some take less. Everyone has their own reasons. But he couldn’t allow it to […]

— But how do you not understand, Sergey? — Lena’s voice rang with tension, approaching its maximum volume. — You just need to explain to your mom that she’ll be better off among other elderly people like her! And in return, we’ll get an apartment in a prestigious neighborhood and be able to forget about […]

Fedor sat in the cool office of a private clinic, his fingers so tightly interlaced that they had turned white from the strain. Every word from the doctor, spoken with that particular caution that only comes when delivering dreadful diagnoses, seemed to drive another nail into the coffin of his fate. An invisible noose tightened […]

As her grandmother used to tell her, Veronika’s father had disappeared from the village long before she was born. And her mother died after enduring a severe illness that claimed the life of the young woman in just a few months. Thus, the only close relative who took on the care of the girl was […]

Despite the formal abolition of estates, people are still divided into social categories. This is evident, for example, in the level of income: what is available to some remains an unattainable dream for others. The gap in wealth is sometimes so vast that ordinary citizens view their affluent compatriots as beings from another world—owners of […]