Why should I give up the lower bunk to you?” Anna, a young woman with a tired face, spoke sharply, yet a note of desperation could be heard in her voice. “I have a small child, where are we supposed to climb?!”

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— “I have a small child, where are we supposed to climb!?” Anna’s voice, a young woman with a tired face, sounded sharp, yet also carried a note of desperation. — “And you suggest an old woman like me climb up there?!” Tatiana Arkadievna’s voice, dry and categorical, cut through the stuffiness of the train … Read more

Orphanage poverty!” — the mother-in-law and husband threw these words in Sveta’s face. But how bitterly they would regret this later.

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Can one find happiness if their childhood was spent within the walls of an orphanage? This question haunts many… Sveta was only thirteen when fate struck a terrible blow—her parents died in a car accident. Relatives? They just turned away. But the girl… She was special: smart, beautiful, well-mannered, and healthy. It’s no wonder that … Read more

Let’s give him up for adoption… The man stood in the hospital’s reception area, his shoulders slumped.

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 A man stood in the reception area of the maternity hospital, shoulders slumped. He held no flowers in his hands, unlike what is typical when greeting new mothers with babies. His cracked and chewed lips were tightly pressed together. This was not how Ignat had imagined meeting his long-awaited heir. Oh, not like this! He … Read more

“So I’m supposed to pay off the loan, right? And the car goes to your mistress, right? How lovely,” Irina thought

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 “Irina Viktorovna, we’ve got another incident at School No. 7. The shop teacher drank the machines away and wrote them off as ‘obsolete’,” the young secretary said, placing a folder on the polished desk. “Not ‘drank away’—‘lost due to negligence,’ Lenočka. Learn to phrase it so a person can be fired with a lifetime stain, … Read more

Tell Olya that you’re helping me at the dacha, but actually go to the sea with Kira,” she overheard when she returned from work…

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 Ol, is yours on a business trip again?” – Pavel, a colleague, caught up with Olga as she was heading to the bus stop. – “Maybe we can sit in a cafe? Have your favorite cocoa, talk a bit, since it’s always just ‘hello, goodbye.’” “Sorry, Pash, I can’t today. Ignat promised he’d be home … Read more

Sister Stole Husband. Retribution”

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 Sweetie, take Lenochka with you to the south,” the mother asked her older daughter to take her younger sister on the trip. “Mom, your Lenochka behaves too boldly. Besides, I’m going with my husband, why do I need an extra woman there?” Vika snapped. “But you are sisters. And you are older, you should help … Read more

At first, everyone giggled at the girl when she was fired, and then they cried.

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Lately, Valentina had been extremely unlucky. Absolutely everything seemed to be against her. Her husband left her for another woman, and she couldn’t recover for a month, never even suspecting that such a thing could happen to her. Eventually, she survived, burying the pain inside herself, having trusted him as she trusted herself. Just when … Read more

— A once-in-a-lifetime chance: the husband went to the sea, leaving his immobile wife to care for her mother-in-law.

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 So, the surgery is necessary?” Konstantin looked at his wife. Ulyana was clearly agitated and couldn’t make a decision. On one hand, the situation required urgent action; on the other, she was afraid to leave her husband and mother-in-law. “Maybe we should postpone it? At least for a month?” “You know I got a quota. … Read more

In her dream, her parents warned her daughter, pointing to an old house. The dream that revealed such details made her uneasy.

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 Returning from work, Marina witnessed a young man trying to snatch a woman’s purse. He was subdued and taken to the police station. There, she gave a statement and was soon released, asked to stay in town to later testify in court as a witness. Finally, Marina crossed the threshold of her apartment. For a … Read more