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Where do you suddenly get off throwing your weight around here, Dima? You asked me to let you stay until you sorted out your job and housing! And if I feel like it, my dad will come over and throw you out of here!

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 Where do you think you’re going? I told you, you’re staying home.” Dima stepped out of the kitchen into the narrow hallway and, getting two steps ahead of Lera, planted his broad palm against the doorjamb. His body completely blocked the way out. In the dim light of the single bulb his figure looked massive, … Read more

Raisa Grigorievna, what makes you think I’m supposed to support your son? He’s my husband, he’s a grown man, he’s the one who should be supporting me, not the other way round! So you and your ‘defenses’ of your little boy can just get out of here

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  Mashenka, open up, it’s me! I brought fresh little pies, with cabbage, just the way Pavlik likes them!” The voice behind the door was brisk and insistent, leaving not the slightest chance to pretend no one was home. Maria slowly wiped her hands on the kitchen towel and shot a brief, heavy look at … Read more

After the divorce, my ex-husband and mother-in-law tried to make my life miserable. But they had no idea how their disgusting scheme would end for them…

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  The mother-in-law’s booming, authority-soaked voice cut through the stale air of the old two-room apartment on the outskirts of Moscow. “Olya, you’re not a stranger. You understand—we’re family. And in a family, how is it? Everything is shared. Shared joys, and so… shared opportunities too.” Olga, a literature teacher with twenty years of experience, … Read more

An orphan inherited only a pitiful letter… But when she read it, the laughter of her husband and his mistress turned into PANIC!

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  Orphan Maria sat in the cold, grave-like room of the notary, hunched under the weight of hostile, malicious glances. On either side of her—like wolves at the edges of a pen—sat Grigory, her husband, and his mistress, Lidia. He wore a smug grin, as if he had already won; she gave a venomous chuckle, … Read more

“How dare you sell the plot without my permission?” — I inherited a dacha. But my mother-in-law decided it belonged to her.

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Lilya, what are you doing to those curtains?” her mother-in-law’s voice sliced through the living room’s silence. “How can you hang them like that? The pleats are coming out uneven.” Lilia froze on the stepladder, holding the heavy drape. Valentina Petrovna circled below, critically evaluating her daughter-in-law’s every move. “It’s easier for me this way,” … Read more

Chasing his wife out, the husband laughed that all she got was an old refrigerator. He had no idea the wall inside it was double.

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 A heavy, suffocating silence wrapped around the apartment, steeped in the scent of incense and wilting lilies. Marina sat hunched on the edge of the couch, as if crushed by an invisible weight. The black dress clung to her body, itching—reminding her of the cause of this dead stillness: today she had buried her grandmother, … Read more

“You’re not my mother, so stop coming to our home all the time and trying to teach me how to live! If you come here one more time, my husband won’t have a mother anymore! Do you understand me?!”

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Dusty, Darina. I taught you that you need to start cleaning from top to bottom. First wipe the cabinets, then the shelves, and only then take on the floor.” Galina Viktorovna’s voice—steady and devoid of emotion—cut through the silence of the entryway. Her index finger, crowned with a flawless manicure, slowly drew a line across … Read more

“Why did you come here?! Get out, or I’ll call the police!” the mother-in-law barked at her daughter-in-law’s dacha.

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 Alice had always dreamed of having her own dacha. Not the kind you inherit along with someone else’s memories and worn-out furniture, but one that was truly hers—where she would hammer in every nail herself, where she would know the story of every tree and every bush. She bought the plot three years before the … Read more