Your sister’s family now eats here for a fee,” her wife blurted out, “borscht is 400 rubles.

— Tanya, where is your granulated sugar? — Nastya rummaged again through her kitchen drawers, — Why do you keep moving it around? Tanya was thoroughly fed up with these sudden visits from Sasha’s sister. And it wasn’t just her—if it were only her, it might have been forgivable. No, she dragged along her entire … Read more

— Do I have to leave because your sister is coming? And haven’t you become too cheeky, my dear, by any chance? This is my apartment!

— “I have to leave because your sister is coming? And haven’t you gotten way too cheeky, my dear, by any chance? This is my apartment!” Marina protested as she and her husband had just returned home from work. Marina couldn’t believe her ears. For the past two years, their marriage had seemed perfect: they … Read more

— Here’s the court decision! And now get up and get out of my apartment,” she declared firmly, looking at her husband, her mother-in-law, and her sister-in-law.

— What happened? — asked Anya, watching her husband’s reaction. Vitya, clutching the phone tightly in his hand, slowly sank onto the sofa. “— My mom’s house burned down,” — he managed to say. “— How?” — Anya said, confused, as she sat down next to him. “— I don’t know; she just called and … Read more

I love someone else and I’m leaving,” declared the husband a minute before he himself was used and thrown out.

Evening light softly filtered through the sheer curtains, leaving whimsical patterns on the living room floor. Rita placed two dinner plates on the table and glanced at the clock almost on autopilot. Eight o’clock. Oleg had promised to be here at seven, but in recent months his words had become worth nothing. Rita took out … Read more

— She quickly got up and made me scrambled eggs, — ordered the mother-in-law, but the daughter-in-law quickly put her in her place.

Strange, why did she choose me?” Olesya pondered. Maria Aleksandrovna had three daughters-in-law, but she disliked the youngest the most. Perhaps it was because she was “always nearby” — after all, the other daughters-in-law had chosen to move to neighboring cities, far away from the meddlesome mother-in-law. Or maybe it was some personal antipathy. In … Read more

Having decided to put his unruly son in his place, the banker pointed him toward the first woman he encountered and set conditions that would change the young man’s life.

— Artyom, frankly, I’ve had it with your antics!!! — shouted his father, waving his fist threateningly in front of his only son. — Dad, but I didn’t do it on purpose, — the son replied lazily, glancing longingly out the window. Artyom was already thoroughly tired of his father’s moralizing lectures, and his head … Read more

After quarrelling with her suitor over the inheritance, the granddaughter drove in tears to her late grandfather’s country house—and it turned out, not in vain…

The gentle rays of the morning sun wrapped the earth in soft waves of warmth, painting everything around in golden hues, yet Yana did not notice this beauty. Her thoughts were consumed by something else entirely. Today, neither the sunbeams dancing along the path like little bunnies, nor the curious sparrows searching for crumbs in … Read more

– I retired, not entered into slavery! – said the mother, and her relatives were stunned.

Mom, where are you?” Lena exclaimed, noticing the empty apartment and the absent look in her little brother Vanechka’s eyes, who had just come home from school. “She’s gone. Didn’t answer her phone, and there’s no note,” added Vera from the doorway, Lena’s older sister, who had also stopped by to visit their mother. They … Read more

— Why does your son need an apartment? Hand it over to me! — only her cohabitant was unaware of her plans.

What, did you sign off on the apartment?!” Garik shouted, his eyes widening. “Who did you agree with?” “First and foremost with my own conscience,” Victoria replied. “How can you not be ashamed!” her cohabitant bellowed, as if he were a strict teacher, waving his hand. “I was counting on moving my mother in there, … Read more

Fatbag gave a farm to the first woman he met. When he lost his business, he went off begging for a place to stay—to see how people would repay his kindness.

— What are you doing, where do you think you’re going?! — Semen snapped irritably, though he himself knew he wasn’t without fault, as he pondered behind the wheel. But how could anyone decide on such a step: crossing the street at a non-designated spot, and moreover, holding a roughly five-year-old child’s hand? This is … Read more