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“You’re disgracing our family name with those relatives of yours,” Artyom snorted, tossing his spoon onto his plate. Dasha stood up and laughed loudly in his face. “I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you. Please repeat that profound thought. I’d like to write it in a notebook and preserve it as a sacred relic.” “Are you […]

The doorbell rang at half past seven in the evening. I wiped my hands on a towel, looked through the peephole, and didn’t recognize the person standing outside. There was a woman on the landing wearing a dark coat. High heels, a shoulder bag, a perfect manicure—she looked as though she had come to a […]

“What on earth is this?!” The voice of Vera’s mother-in-law, Tamara Viktorovna, swept through the apartment before she had even managed to take off her shoes. “I worked myself to the bone for that son of mine all my life, and now you’re standing here asserting your rights?!” Vera stood in the middle of the […]

“My mother is moving into your studio apartment today. I already warned the tenants. She has the keys.” Kirill said it as casually as if he were announcing a water delivery. I was standing at the kitchen counter with a folder for a new project. On the cover was the site plan: retaining walls, pathways, […]

Masha hurled the keys onto the windowsill so hard that they bounced off the frame and fell behind the radiator. She did not even bother picking them up. She stood in the middle of the kitchen in her coat, her bag still hanging from her shoulder, close to the doorway because she no longer had […]

Galina believed that twenty years of marriage gave her the right to have a say. But when Viktor gave her an ultimatum, she chose something he had never expected. Something she herself had never expected, either. Galina found the suitcase on top of the hallway cupboard at half past nine in the evening. The layer […]

Olga had spent three days preparing this dinner. She had gathered everyone around one table, just as she had dreamed. But when the guests fell silent and she pressed “record” on her phone, it became clear that some things were better left unsaid. She had been chopping the salad since four in the morning. Not […]

Zoya was packing books into boxes before the move. A sheet of paper folded into quarters slipped from between the pages of an old novel. What was written on it overturned everything she thought she knew about her marriage. Zoya found the promissory note on Thursday, between pages 143 and 144 of Anna Karenina. The […]