Life Stories
After Marina’s last words, Andria gripped the phone so tightly that his fingers turned white.
Someone knocked on the door once more. Gleb immediately looked toward the window. A few minutes earlier
I entered the train compartment at the moment when the six-week-old infant’s lips turned white and his
The black cars stood one behind another on the station platform. Roman lowered the curtain.
The moment the door of Dante Russo’s office locked itself, I realized that my escape from my past was over.
At the moment when the priest asked Taras to kiss me, my new husband stepped back and, in front of nearly
In my mother’s kitchen, my six-year-old daughter lay unconscious on the floor, while my mother held me
At a family gathering, my daughter-in-law stood up, raised her glass, and announced so that everyone
At the moment when I was about to write back a refusal to my former husband’s Christmas invitation, his
At Dante’s last words, the telephones behind the door rang simultaneously. All four guards picked up









