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“What is this?” Svetlana froze in the kitchen doorway, her whitening fingers still clenched around the handle of the shopping bag. The bag with kefir and a loaf of Darnitsky bread hit the floor with a dull thud when she finally let go of the load, but even that sound did not make the man […]

“Yegor told me that you’re planning to expand the family. And as a mother, I can’t help but be happy about that. But I’m very concerned about the legal side of the matter. You live together, you’re planning a child, and yet the apartment is registered only in your name. That, Verochka, is wrong and […]

  “My dears!” Svetlana Grigoryevna wailed, pressing a handkerchief to her eyes. “You are all sitting here, enjoying yourselves, eating caviar… while I… I am standing on the edge of an abyss! And because of whom? Because of my own daughter!” Veronika’s life resembled a perfectly calibrated, complex mechanism in which every part was in […]

“Tomorrow is the banquet. I hope you’ll make yourself look presentable and stop acting like an offended victim. My mother already suspects things aren’t smooth between us because I came to their place a couple of times in wrinkled clothes. Try to live up to the status of being my wife.” Alena carefully adjusted the […]

“That’s it, we’re going tomorrow!” Kirill entered the apartment looking as if he had just won a tender to build a bridge. “Mom called. She says we haven’t all gathered together in ages. Aunt Vera and Uncle Vasya are coming too. Lida, buy some meat for shashlik, about three kilos, no less. Pork neck. You […]

“You’re looking at that score sheet as if those numbers are poisonous insects crawling across the paper,” Viktor said without even turning his head, continuing to meticulously clean the lenses of his surveying level. “So she didn’t get enough points. It happens. Life doesn’t end there. She can go work.” “Vitya, she missed it by […]

“Why should I move out? This is my apartment!” Vera stood in the middle of her own living room, staring at the suitcases that were already being carried into the house. Her husband’s pregnant sister shifted awkwardly by the door, stroking her rounded belly. Meanwhile, her mother-in-law confidently commanded the movers, pointing out where to […]

The documents were lying on the edge of the coffee table — a folder with ties, the kind Miron usually put away in the drawer of his writing desk. That evening, he had been in a hurry somewhere and had apparently forgotten it. Miroslava had no intention of opening it. She was simply clearing unnecessary […]