Month: September 2026

Mariam’s last words hung in the air. I pictured Irakli’s face—his tired eyes, muddy shoes, and the calm

The telephone trembled again in my hand. Vera hugged Lionka to her chest. “Let’s call the police,” she said.

That evening, when my mother-in-law forcibly took the baby from my hands, I realized for the first time

After Elene’s final words, such silence descended in the room that it seemed as though snow had piled

That day, when the archive employee told me that Xenia did not want to give birth to her own child, the

At the sight of my own address, I could not make a sound for several seconds. Dmitri, however, seemed

“Pasha, are you a man at all, or are you sitting there only for decoration?” My mother-in-law’s calm

The call from the bank came at seven o’clock in the evening. I was sitting in the kitchen. Three documents

That evening my husband told me that our four-month-old daughter was not safe with me, while his mother

I did not go to the old station alone the next morning. Irakli came with me, while Elene kept Mila at