— Svetka, you look completely dried out! Your face is paler than paper. Did something happen?” Katya asked worriedly, waving her hands.

Svetlana woke up from a strange sensation — silence. Not just any silence, but such complete and dense silence that it seemed to buzz in her ears. She hadn’t paid attention to such silence in her own apartment for a long time, where every day began with Lisa’s crying and Misha’s stomping. But today was […]

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The neighbors took advantage of our absence and ran a gas line through our property without asking, but we didn’t let it go like that.

— Vasily, do you see this? — Anna Sergeyevna stood in the middle of the vegetable garden, pointing at a gray gas pipe that snaked right through the potato beds. — What pipe? — her husband tore himself away from fixing the fence and came closer. — What kind of miracle is this? — There […]

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