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Call your village mom! Let her come and clean up after me since you’re not capable of handling it yourself.» These words, thrown sharply with a venomous sneer, sliced through the silence of the living room like a whip. Everyone in the room froze in shock. Even Sasha, holding a spoon over a cup of […]

Where was your head when you got involved with her?» Irina Andreevna fumed upon learning that her son was about to marry Yulia. «She’s only nineteen, what kind of wife will she be?» «What can I do now?» Nikita, twenty-three, shrugged. «It just happened…» «Just happened…» Irina Andreevna repeated after her son. «All these years, […]

In one of the wards of an expensive private clinic, a young woman was quietly fading away. The doctors moved around her cautiously, as though afraid to disturb death itself. Periodically, they cast worried glances at the monitors, where the vital signs flickered weakly. It was clear to them: even the largest sums of money […]

Karina carefully took the electronic scales out of the box and began setting them up. The new gadget, with its many functions, was quite expensive, but the woman was sure it was worth it. The summer season was just around the corner, so it was time to seriously focus on her figure. With a click […]

Natasha stroked the wooden wall with her palm, feeling the roughness of the old log. This house had witnessed her first steps, her first tears, her first joys. A sturdy, albeit old, village house with a carved porch and a small, well-kept garden had been her sanctuary since childhood. After the death of her grandmother, […]

Kristina took her coat off the hanger and began putting it on. «Why are you always in such a hurry?» her colleague asked. «Masha, you know, Anna Fyodorovna is waiting for me at home,» Kristina replied, turning to her friend. Masha smiled wryly: «You’re strange, Kristina. She’s not even your relative, and her son really […]

– Well, where do you think you’re going?! Semyon, of course, understood that he wasn’t perfect either, but he couldn’t help thinking about it. But what was it with her, walking on the road like that? Crossing the street at the wrong place, and holding a child of about five by the hand – that […]

May holidays are a time when the city empties out, and country houses come to life. Marina was packing the last bags of groceries into the trunk while Konstantin fiddled with the navigator. «Are you sure we haven’t forgotten anything?» he asked for the third time, casting a wary glance at their city apartment. Marina […]

Lena was riding in a minibus, tightly holding an neatly wrapped box against her. Inside were two homemade pies: a cherry charlotte and a delicate honey cake. These were the treats her mother-in-law, Valentina Pavlovna, loved so much. Her sons and husband never remembered dates, never paid attention to the little things. But Lena — […]

I still remember that day — as if it collided with my life forever. The doctor was holding the X-rays, quickly speaking about abnormalities, areas of damage, and functional deviations. The words flew through me like wind through an empty window. I sat there, unwilling to understand. I couldn’t. But one sentence pierced my heart […]