Until the age of thirty-six, Gennady lived calmly and even thought he was doing quite well. Wife Lyusya, daughter Dasha, a three-room Khrushchev apartment with windows on both sides, a perfectly respectable job as a middle manager with a salary of thirty thousand and even, sometimes, quarterly bonuses.
THE FAIRY-TALE RESERVE
BRONZE FOR THE TALE JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION FOR ILLUSTRATION
There is such a literary game. Something like writing on a given theme.
Yesterday I received the task of writing a fairy tale in which…
Ilya Petrovich was not a nerd. He simply loved school. He loved his classroom, hung with charts, photographs and pictures of beautiful pistils and stamens and all sorts of little animals, always smiling and kind. Ilya Petrovich had collected these charts and visual aids for many years, not trusting…
Day of the Hut on Chicken Legs — R E S U L T S !!!
GOLD FOR ILLUSTRATION
SILVER FOR THE TALE
Vasilisa looked around. Yes, she had been waiting for an apartment for a long time. The queue for receiving a housing order was so enormous…
That morning the Fairy was brewing a magic drink in a cauldron.
By evening she expected guests — not ordinary ones, but very important kings and nobles, and very capricious princesses from all the surrounding kingdoms. A holiday was approaching, and everyone was trying to receive an invitation…
Once I felt like taking part in a literary game and writing about coincidences. Absolutely nothing would come to mind; however, two incidents immediately returned to me, ones that had happened about ten years apart. The first coincidence When my younger son was five or six,…
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