Those were her last words. A minute later, she passed away. The next day, we called her son to deliver the sad news. When I saw his reaction, it hurt even more than the night before. — Good, — the son said indifferently. — I’ll come tomorrow morning to pick up her things. But the…
The son called only to ask one thing: was his mother still alive? He wanted her apartment — and nothing more. Every evening, the elderly woman looked out the window as if she were waiting for someone. Sometimes she thought we didn’t notice and cried quietly. I checked on her several times during the night,…
The 80-year-old grandmother had been with us for almost a month — quiet, neat, grateful for every word, every glass of water. And during all that time, no one visited her. Not a single phone call, not a single guest. Only we — nurses and doctors — were by her side, and over time she…
An elderly woman lay in the hospital completely alone, and no one came to visit her: her only son was simply waiting for the moment when the apartment would finally become his 😢😨 I have worked in the hospital for many years, and during this time I have seen so much pain, injustice, and…
Leon wasn’t just “a relative of the groom.” He turned out to be one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in the region — a man whose name was known even to people far from the business world. Young, successful, private, and — most importantly — single. The women at the wedding watched him from afar: some…
I turned around — and saw a man who literally took my breath away. Tall, well-groomed, in a perfect suit, with deep brown eyes and a touch of gray at his temples. — Leon, — he introduced himself with a gentle smile. — The groom’s cousin. Without asking permission, but doing it respectfully, he pulled…
People nodded along, gave me advice to “be simpler,” and someone even said I should “go to church more often.” And when it was time to toss the bouquet, my sister theatrically threw it in the opposite direction, as if by accident, then announced to the entire hall: — Looks like my sister will have…
At the table sat only a few younger relatives in their mid-twenties and a chatty aunt who kept repeating, with great importance, that “women shouldn’t wait too long to have children.” My sister Mira spent the whole evening trying to make me look like a failure. She would drag me over to the wealthy guests…
At the wedding, my sister seated me in the farthest corner, but suddenly a stranger leaned toward me and quietly said, “Pretend we’re a couple — and your sister will seriously regret it.” 😱🤔 Me — a 32-year-old independent woman with my own apartment and a stable career — they placed at the most insignificant…
Every one of the pregnant women had visited the infirmary on the exact days when the same doctor — an experienced gynecologist transferred there for a “special assignment” — was on duty. And each had complained of different symptoms, easy to fake or provoke. The investigator opened a classified logbook: on those days, the inmates…
