Recent Entries

• Never Meet Your Hero. Ch.5

  July 12, 2024

  Olenegorsk met me unfriendly. The apartment I had booked in advance turned out to be a real rat hole. The leaky ceiling, brown stains all over the shabby wallpaper, worn-out furniture and dirty old plumbing were not all the issues I faced - for I had used to live in worse conditions. The suckiest...

  Continue Reading...

• Never Meet Your Hero. Ch.4

  October 8, 2023

  In the second-class carriage of the train running from Anapa to Murmansk there was a stuffy stench from the crowd of hot, sweaty passengers. I occupied an upper seat next to the lavatory. It was one of the suckiest seats in the carriage – that’s why it cost so cheap. Well, beggars can’t be choose...

  Continue Reading...

• Never Meet Your Hero. Ch.3

  October 7, 2023

  According to Frederick Begbeder, love lasts only three years. For my part, I wouldn’t say so. This thing is purely individual. You can’t measure it with a ruler. In some cases love can live longer. In other cases it can’t even last a couple months. Take me, for instance. No romantic relationship ...

  Continue Reading...

• Never Meet Your Hero. Ch.2

  October 7, 2023

  To be honest, I find it hard to write this story. Perhaps, I would find it much easier if I was writing it not now, but, say, in five years. When it’s all gone and doesn’t matter anymore. But, on the other hand, I understand, that by that time a lot of things would have…

  Continue Reading...

• Never Meet Your Hero. Ch.1

  October 7, 2023

  As they say, being a good person is not a profession. What is a good person, anyway? It’s a person with many “nots”. They do NOT drink or smoke. They do NOT hurt anyone. They do NOT say “no”. They do NOT cheat or deceive. They do NOT steal. They do NOT gossip or slander.…

  Continue Reading...

• Depressed

  August 17, 2022

  As I see this resource doesn't have much feedback. Like many others. But ok, anyway I've got no other place to post. So, Nickolas (the doctor I've already told about) is slowly backing off, as I see. I kind of knew that this relationship has no perspective, that he's not much into me, still... I&...

  Continue Reading...

• A former teenager’s story. Ch. 29-34

  May 13, 2020

  CHAPTER 29 That summer dads hadn’t taken me to the country for some reason. Or, maybe, they had, but I can’t for the life of me remember that. But I can remember quite distinctly my father living at the villa with us, and mother coming only on weekends. Evidently, father was on holiday while mum&...

  Continue Reading...

• A former teenager’s story. Ch. 25-28

  May 9, 2020

  CHAPTER 25 That night I came home late, when the wake had already been over, and there were just a few leftovers on the table. Gran Zoya made a bed for me in the lounge room. Even though my late grandfather had used to sleep on that lounge I didn’t mind it. Having had a…

  Continue Reading...

• A former teenager’s story. Ch. 21-24

  May 7, 2020

  CHAPTER 21 Meanwhile in the house the tables for the bereavement food were already drawn out and covered with white cloth; in the kitchen the women made pancakes in sizzling cast-iron pans, cooked traditional bereavement sweet porridge with honey and raisins, and, chatting lively, they carried to...

  Continue Reading...