My mother-in-law had a big appetite. And I’m not talking about an appetite for food, but an appetite for money and other people’s achievements. My mother-in-law’s audacity knew no bounds, but I didn’t let her destroy everything. It all started when I married Vadim. We were young and naive. There wasn’t much money, but it […]
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The tender rays of the setting sun gilded the rooftops of the cottage village. Xenia, leaning on the terrace railing, watched Artem, who was intently fanning the coals in the grill. Four-year-old Lera, proudly calling herself «the main assistant,» brought her father tongs and spices, while eight-year-old Maxim energetically kicked a football into the makeshift […]
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A cold winter morning had enveloped the land with the thinnest layer of frost, as if someone with an invisible hand had dusted it with tiny diamonds. The sky was just beginning to lighten, and the air was so clean that it seemed crystalline. Each breath stung the nose and cheeks, a reminder: winter was […]
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Irina stared blankly, seeing through the window the blurred edges of snowflakes descending in St. Petersburg. On the other end of the phone, her husband’s voice, a tone she knew too well, filled her with a routine emptiness. Yura was in Moscow, on another «business trip.» Their conversation, like their last dozen calls, was about […]
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