Marry me… on paper. For six months at most. I’ll pay three hundred thousand rubles.

Maxim clenched the ticket in his hand and looked at the familiar station. Three years away from home, three years of hard work at the logging camps—all for this moment. In his backpack were gifts for his mother and his sister Tatyana, and in his pocket—the cherished ring for Irina.   “Maxim? Is that really […]

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— “What are you doing here with your maggots? No space! Get out!” the sister-in-law barked when we arrived at our own dacha.

Irina checked the grocery list one last time before closing the trunk. Cans of stew, pasta, grains, vegetables for salad—enough for a week of peaceful rest. Their son, Artyom, was already in the back seat with his tablet, and her husband, Nikolai, was starting the car. “Finally we’ll make it to the dacha,” Irina said, […]

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