Stories

— “Grandma, leave the tea!” The voice was so close and clear that Lyudmila Sergeevna started. The tea bag slipped...

I’m 33, and drunk, I proposed to the 55-year-old cook from our cafeteria. He agreed. I sobered up in the...

A typical evening in a young family’s life was interrupted by a piercing shriek from the bedroom. — Son! She...

She burst in without ringing the bell—as always, abruptly, loudly, as if the door were her own, not mine. I...

For four hours, I fought for the life of a five-year-old boy, was late to my own wedding, and twenty...