Having been released from the colony on parole, not knowing where to go, she took the wrong address—and spent the night in the house of complete strangers.

— You’ve over-salted it again,” Nadezhda Petrovna demonstratively pushed the bowl of borscht aside. “At my age, food like this was simply considered sabotage.” Valeria clenched a napkin under the table. That borscht had taken three hours to make.   “Sorry, I’ll be more careful next time,” Valeria replied quietly. “Apologies won’t make this slop […]

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The boy was kicked out of the house by his parents on New Year’s Eve. Years later, he opened the door for them… What awaited them was a twist no one expected.

Outside the windows of the houses, warm lights of garlands were glowing, Christmas trees were reflected in the glass, and sounds of New Year’s melodies could be heard. And beyond these walls—there reigned a white silence. Snow fell in thick flakes, as if someone invisible was endlessly sprinkling it from the sky. The silence was […]

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