She woke up to the quiet sound of snowplows outside the window and left the house. There was a thunderstorm at night. Water flowed along the sidewalks, wet l...

A brother and sister come to the apartment of their grandfather, who is in the hospital. In fact, it is completely unclear from the text whether he is their ...

A two-page story consisting of simple sentences describing the sequence of actions of the heroine. A complete cycle - from removing the cape and lighting the...

The famous artist turns eighty years old. Many people come to congratulate her - fellow artists, art critics, critics and generally people known in various f...

Nurdman worked as a blaster and once took his son with him to blasting work.

The Italian Lucio is terribly kind and pleasant in every way. His friends love him (because it is impossible not to love him), but this affection and love bo...

A team of loaders unloads a scow with sand. A handsome, strong guy pushes a wheelbarrow to the shore, waits with an indifferent look until the sand pours out...

Anja and Vera Hager decided to throw a party for their niece, their brother’s daughter, who turned one year old. They invited the children, lit candles on th...

Ralph takes Leila to an unfamiliar house: he received a call and was asked to look after a man. Ralph doesn't know who he is. The man - a tall guy with brown...

One day he saw - no, not a reflection in a window, but a second himself. I just stood next to myself and looked at myself from the side. A second later this ...

The book about the Moomins takes us to a magical valley, where the kindest and most faithful friends live together, where they are always happy to shelter a ...

Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for TranslationFair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-...