I am a world-renowned diagnostician. I’m the person doctors call when patients are sick, remain sick, and fall on the…
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You see the thing about Yuri was that he was not a high-ranking or particularly effective KGB officer. Back in…
It was more shadows than complete darkness. I could see outlines of things if they were very near me. I…
Around midday, the sky darkened with flies. They filled the sky with annoyance and doom. Maybe this was the end.…
“Sergei…I was able to make some thin soup out of the two potatoes and one carrot I scavenged for.…
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The rain began on Monday. A light drizzle that became an insistent downpour. My husband tended to the farm as…