I really love staged photographs - where everyone is beautiful and smiling. The daughter is a gentle beauty, the son is a serious, smart boy. I am such an af...

Continuation of the story about the museum cat Tikhon from the famous journalist and writer Masha Traub. In an abandoned house, where Tikhon found himself af...

The greatest joys and sorrows happen in childhood. The most unhappy love is experienced in adolescence. Only then does all the best things happen - if friend...

Circumstances can be stronger than us... An expression known to everyone. But have you ever found yourself in a similar situation? Surely someone will answer...

“Get ready, we're leaving” is my debut story. The editor fished it out from the piles of folders that were piled on the windowsill, blocking out the daylight...

A shoemaker without boots. This happens more often than we think. Brilliant teachers turn out to be powerless in teaching their children, first-class doctors...

Nine years have passed since the release of “The Diary of a First-Grader’s Mother.” And I went to school again – now with my first-grader daughter. What chan...

“My name is Serafima. I'm one and a half years old. I can’t speak, but I understand everything. Only mom can guess about this. In any case, when we are alone...

"Swallow" is a family novel. A story of love, hate and hope. Desperate hope that it is not too late to change everything, that close people will sooner or la...

Each story included in this collection is a frozen moment, a story that will happen before your eyes. As you turn page after page of someone else's life, you...

What is the price of success? How much does betrayal cost? How did you have to live your life so that at the end of it your own children would sell you and y...

I arrived at the house where I grew up. She tried to open the door for a long time, fiddling with the keys in the door locks. "And who are you?" – my neighbo...