Short story — Suddenly Irina heard a deafening blast. Literally. She completely lost her hearing while falling on the floor. Next all the walls around her started to tremble. As soon as the trembling ceased, the girl raised for a second to lock the door to the toilet she was in, as if…

A story of dollarosis — What do you parents think about giving your kid some petty cash regularly? Many child-rearing experts claim it’s an excellent idea, right? Well, be careful, you may raise a beast. When our son was about 7 years old, we parents decided to allot him some pocket money. It wasn’t big…

Don’t worry be happy — When you have children you should be prepared to face some oddities they deliver. Yes, definitely, kiddos get bizarre sometimes. …

Free verse — Metal men surround me. Some are born metal, others become metal as they age. I choose to grow it sometimes and quickly remove it when it’s all over. When the time comes I grow metal on my all skin, it spreads over my head and tongue, springs out of my hands…

Right now! Generally my son is the cutest creature that has ever stomped their foot on earth, it’s our little sunlight and the cuddliest bunny. Not all the time though. Especially when he was around seven, he would sometimes fall into this one of a kind mood — diabolical, demonic…

Enough is enough! — Of course we shouldn’t get attached to material things too much, of course, but I’m only a human, so there have been a few ones I’ve found extremely hard to part with. The below story is about one of such special objects. One summer afternoon my friend and her little…

Gimme something to laugh at and forget — In my twenties I remember I used to laugh heartily at all those ladies going hysterical because of their thirtieth and then on birthdays. At the age of forty I became one of them with the hysterics repeating every single year ever after. …