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“Enough already. Stop pretending you’re the lady of the house. Mom is coming, and that’s final. She lives alone, her health is terrible. She’s moving in with us.” Nadya raised her eyes from the children’s drawings she had been sorting into a folder. Anton was standing in the kitchen doorway, arms crossed, looking off to […]

Olga did not immediately understand why her husband had started coming home from work in silence. Then she saw his correspondence with his sister. Seven days later, Viktor went to the bank, and everything fell into place. Olga noticed it because of the spoon. Viktor had always stirred his tea counterclockwise, slowly, thoughtfully, looking out […]

Galina Petrovna stood on the doorstep with two suitcases and a banana box. She was sure her son would take her in. She did not know the apartment was registered in her daughter-in-law’s name. The doorbell rang at half past eight in the morning, when Rita had not even managed to finish her coffee. The […]

Alisa sat in the dispatch office, staring blankly at her sneakers. The right one had come slightly unglued where the sole met the shoe, and whenever the street turned into a slushy mess of melting snow and road chemicals, her foot instantly got soaked. Gluing her shoes back together with superglue on Sundays had already […]

Ekaterina bought that apartment when she was thirty-one — on her own, without anyone’s help, after seven years of working as a senior analyst at an insurance company in Voronezh. It was a two-room apartment on the fifth floor of a new building, with a view of a small park and a sensible layout, where […]

The smell of cheap Turkish lavender air freshener had sunk permanently into the walls of their two-room apartment on the outskirts of the city. Yadviga Antonovna, who had turned thirty-nine a couple of days earlier, sat in the kitchen, thoughtfully looking at her hands. On the index finger of her left hand were barely visible […]

“Don’t cook half of the dumplings. Put them into containers; your father and I will take them,” my mother-in-law ordered as she walked into my country-house kitchen with such confidence, as if the dumplings had already been registered inside her bag. “A proper housewife should live more modestly and not teach her husband to be […]

My ex-husband Kirill had a unique talent: he knew how to burst into someone else’s life with the grace of a bulldozer that, for some reason, believed it was a ballet barre. He appeared on the doorstep of my apartment at seven in the evening on a February Tuesday, shaking snow from a coat that […]