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Frogs. A spell or…?

The girl yelled at the top of her voice and rushed out into the yard in search of her mum, still feeling the creature’s wet and cold touch on her chest. The mum did her best to calm her daughter…

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The first of September without flowers

The other day pedagogy teacher told us, the students of the philology department, the story about how she was distributed to the village when they still had to work out three years after getting a diploma. She told us as…

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On the road to Amsterdam

– Damn, we’re going to Amsterdam. Am-ster-dam. Amsterdam, you got it? – I got it, two cars, and we are on the spot. We’ve managed to do this to Berlin, and we’re going to do the same with Amster. In…

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Laughter as the last shelter for testosterone

In my surrounding men make better, I mean, funnier jokes. Not better than earlier. They make better jokes than women. This is my surrounding, this is my selection. Not a static or a role model selection, I note. And if you’re getting ready to criticise…

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In Loving Memory!

That is how the real war between the two countries – Russia and Ukraine – began. Not the invasion of “the little green men” that took and annexed the Crimea without striking a blow but a real war with the…

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A tiny doll between the window panes

The school—its eyes squinty, not yet closed—was half breathing, half sleeping. Did it remember its hungry, but cheerful students of the post-war days? Did it expect old village musicians to throw a concert inside? One never knows. It probably forgot…

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Meteoblog of the country’s chief weather forecaster

Summer, however hot or rainy, is always small. This luxurious minimum of clothes, long light evenings, warm water in the rivers, sun bunnies at five in the morning, sunglasses, picnics, generous gardens, flowers, red strawberries, yellow tomatoes and striped watermelons…

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Pathos-o-meter (U)

Assignment: the pathos-o-meter is obligatory for Ukrainian civil servants, politicians, parliamentary candidates, workers of various institutions, teachers, and other public sector employees. The invention can also be used at privately owned enterprises by mutual agreement of the parties. Specifications: The…

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