«Oksana Serhiivna, can you tell me why you actually need that bonus?» Vadym Olehonych didn’t ask right away. First, he flipped through her application for a long time, then set it on the edge of his desk next to his glass holder of cooling tea, and only after that did he look up at her. […]
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I bought forty-nine candles on Wednesday at the little kiosk near the post office. They were thin, striped, ten hryvnias a pack. The cashier even asked if it wasn’t too many, but I just laughed: «It’s exactly right.» But that evening, no one ended up lighting them. Because just half an hour before the cake, […]
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«At your age, it’s too late!» he said. But at 57, she got her driver’s license and did something she’d always dreamed of. «At your age, it’s too late!» her husband would say. But at 57, Halyna got her driver’s license and finally did something she’d always dreamed of. Halyna had been carrying her driver’s […]
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