We don’t let ragged women like you even onto the doorstep!” the manager drove me out of the very hotel I own.

Andrei had been carrying the same thought for several months: he wanted to leave. Quietly. No scandals, no scenes, no explanations. Just disappear.

— Why don’t you shut your mouth with your advice—you’ve never cooked anything but dumplings in your life! And now you’ll be eating only...

Ran to my husband’s work unannounced—and was stunned by what I heard there…

— What did you say? — Tatyana couldn’t believe her mother-in-law would come up with something like that.

— Gena, and since when do you get to decide who will live in my apartment and who won’t? Who are you here? You’re...

She came home from work around midnight, dead on her feet, hungry and angry. How many times had she sworn to quit that cursed...

The life of Anna Viktorovna, whom everyone in the village of Dubrovki knew as Granny Anya, didn’t stop after she retired—it merely changed rhythm,...