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“Here, Anya, take it. Just be careful out there, okay? Don’t speed,” Andrey said with a wide smile, handing his sister the car keys. “Thanks, big bro! You’re the best! I won’t be long, honestly! There and back, I’ll stay at my friend’s for a couple of days and bring it back,” Anya happily grabbed […]

Nadya woke up that morning with a bad feeling. Ten years. A round number. A tin wedding anniversary—at least that’s what Wikipedia said. Though who the hell came up with those names anyway? Tin. As if it were something fragile, easy to melt. She lay there, staring at the ceiling, thinking: I need to get […]

I agreed to let your sister live with us while she was studying, but she graduated six months ago, so she can get out of here! I don’t need this freeloading do-nothing in my home anymore!” Veronica said this in a flat, emotionless voice, but the sound of her putting her plate in the sink […]

My parents are coming tomorrow to stay with us for a month to help with the baby,” my husband happily announced one evening, a week before my due date. He expected me to jump for joy. Instead, I silently packed my things and went to my mother’s, leaving him alone in our tiny apartment. He […]

“Where are you going? I said you’re staying home.” Dima stepped out of the kitchen into the narrow hallway and, getting ahead of Lera by two steps, planted his broad palm against the doorframe. His body completely blocked the way out. In the dim light of the single bulb, his figure seemed massive, motionless, like […]

We’re not going to the restaurant for your birthday. I’ve already canceled everything,” Marina said, neatly folding the wrapping paper into the box. Her voice was even, almost flat, but there was something tired in it. A birthday should have been a reason to celebrate, but instead of anticipation she felt irritation mixed with a […]

You could at least park farther from the curb. A gust of wind will blow it away and you won’t even notice,” Kirill was standing, leaning against the kitchen doorframe, watching Svetlana unpack the groceries from the bag. “It won’t blow away, I’m sitting in it. Heavy,” she threw over her shoulder without turning around. […]

Olya will cook something, like always…” Viktor’s voice rang out as he answered his relatives, staring at the empty fridge. I didn’t start cooking—I decided to make a record of the food that had been eaten. I opened the fridge and froze for a moment, peering into the emptiness. On the middle shelf stood a […]

“Where could they have gone?!” Yegor’s roar rolled through the apartment, making the cat dozing on the windowsill twitch its ear in annoyance. For the third time he turned out the pockets of the jeans hanging on the chair and hurled them back with force. “I clearly remember putting them in my jacket! I’m sure […]

“An overdue loan payment? What loan?” Zinaida pressed the phone between her ear and shoulder, trying with her free hand to catch the cash register log as it slid off the desk. “Credit agreement number seven-three-four-eight, dated November twenty-second of last year,” the woman’s indifferent voice droned in the receiver. “Issued in your name as […]