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— Sveta, maybe you should answer the phone after all? It’s ringing for the third time, — Vera asked quietly, looking up from the cutting board where carrots lay in neat cubes. — What if it’s something urgent? Svetlana, lazily sipping lemonade through a straw, did not even turn her head toward her phone, which […]

Olya stood at the stove, stirring the stew. Denis sat at the table, scrolling through his phone without lifting his head. She turned off the heat, took off her apron, and sat down across from him. “Denis, we need to talk.” “Again?” He didn’t even look up from the screen. “Not today. I’m tired.” “You’re […]

“Mom and my sister are sitting there hungry, and you’re wandering around somewhere!” her husband roared into the phone. Olya was sitting in her friend’s small kitchen, wrapping her hands around a warm cup of mint tea. Outside, a drizzle was falling; drops crawled down the glass, leaving crooked trails behind them. But here, among […]

Galina Petrovna rang the doorbell three times. Short, demanding rings, the way someone knocks on the door of a boss’s office. Zoya wiped her hands on a towel, took off her apron, and went to open the door. She knew that ring. In four years of marriage, she had learned to distinguish it from any […]

Anna stood by the window of her Moscow apartment, watching the evening bustle of the street. In her hands, she clutched her phone, its screen showing several missed calls from her sister Marina. Leonid, her husband, was sitting on the sofa, lazily scrolling through social media. “What do you mean, DIVORCE? Just because I forgot […]

Part I. Shadows in the Hallway The smell of rosin and cheap tobacco had eaten into the upholstery of the armchairs, soaked into the heavy curtains, and even seemed to have seeped into the spines of the old books on the shelves. Zoya, sitting in her corner and grading term papers, grimaced. That smell had […]

Part 1. The Glass Tower of Illusions Ulyana loved silence. For a screenwriter who created worlds out of the chaos of thoughts, silence was not merely the absence of sound, but a canvas. In their spacious apartment, which she had bought two years before meeting Eduard, the panoramic windows faced the sunset side of the […]

That evening, Marina came to the restaurant as if she were attending someone else’s wedding — everything was beautiful, everyone was dressed up, yet inside she felt a dull, heavy mistrust. Lev, her husband, walked beside her confidently: a construction foreman, the kind of man who could convince concrete itself to set straight on a […]