Ilya was in no hurry. It was a beautiful day. The sun was baking hot in summer. In the park, in the shade of a maple tree, he sat down on a bench. I closed my eyes and sat there for a couple of minutes. The working day is over. You can relax. I didn’t …

Varya couldn’t sleep for a long time. Today, the already familiar shkonka seemed especially uncomfortable and rigid. The barracks were stuffy and smelled of something disgusting — viscous and suffocating. Such a smell, in the wild, she had never met. I really wanted to get under a hot shower and a soapy washcloth, to the …

Natalia and I can’t be called close friends, we just work together. Our team is large, the work is not easy, so communication takes place mainly at lunchtime in the nearest cafe. I have noticed for a long time that my colleague walks around looking gloomy, as if she is thinking about something all the …

Once my daughter-in-law doted on me and considered me almost her second mother. She often came to visit even without her son, we could drink tea for hours and chat about life. But everything has changed in a year. Now she doesn’t want to talk to me even on the phone, maybe even hates me. …

The first time Katya saw her husband Sergei’s father was at a wedding. He was not invited, he came himself and, without even looking away, flared up from the anger of his ex-wife, he went across the hall to his son and his fiancee Seryozha. – I know that I am an unwelcome guest here, …

Lena watched from the balcony as the movers unloaded the van and brought furniture and boxes of different sizes into the entrance. New residents came to their house. She returned to the kitchen and heard rustling coming from the hallway. Panic covered her, there was nothing to breathe, her heart began to beat anxiously in …