Modern prose

That summer I was going to go to our capital and work until the fall. I lived in a small town in our large republic, where there was essentially nothing to d...

Abraham is a small, frail old man who doesn't like his job. Every day, year after year, he completes the tasks assigned to him, but does not receive any grat...

A little story that for some reason I can’t read without trembling in my voice. Maybe because mom, the maternal theme penetrates into the very recesses of th...

Rodion is an ordinary person who works to provide for himself. One day he saw a beautiful girl and decided to meet her. But at some point she admits to him t...

Andrew Durbin’s Mature Themes is a hybrid text of poetry, art criticism, and memoir focused on the subject of disingenuity — and what constitutes "persona...

“... There were, of course, those few who firmly believed in the triumph of progress. But the publishing house carefully hid the names of the developers of t...

Dear readers, each of us tirelessly dreams and hopes, but let’s think about this: “Why don’t our wishes always come true?” Their resourcefulness and elusiven...

"If a person repents of his sins, he can return to the time that was the happiest for him. Maybe this is heaven?" Stephen King, The Green Mile

“...The white-green curtain exploded into a snow cloud. Andrey winced. He wanted to talk about the need to take care of the cartridges, but did not have time...

The plot of this chronicle brings to mind “Moscow Tales” by Alexander Kabakov and a cycle of realistically retold fairy tales by the young Kyiv writer Ada Sa...

“...Igor pulled out a pack of cigarettes from the closet, opened the window and slowly lit a cigarette. Timofeev, of course, is an idiot. But if mathematicia...

An essay about the architect's journey to the center of the assembly of the novel "War and Peace." At the very beginning, the author draws out the ordered me...