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Milgrom
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
So the seamstress is out, and Mom must save the situation somehow, except here’s the thing: there’s no money.
Translated from Russian by Keith Gessen & Anna Summers
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The Golem in the Mirror
By Nadezhda Gorlova
I must involuntarily live in a world that the old woman has dragged back from nonexistence.
Translated from Russian by Deborah Hoffman
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None of Your Business
By Natalia Klyuchareva
His mother smiled stupidly, flapped her heavily mascaraed eyelashes, and missed the plate with her fork.
Translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz
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My Story of Chess
By Shota Iatashvili
Her hand would travel around the board, creeping up on a piece as she mumbled in a kind of trance: “J’adoube, j’adoube, j’adoube . . .”
Translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway
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Arm Wrestling in Chebachinsk
By Aleksandr Chudakov
There was nothing to be surprised about: in the town of Chebachinsk there wasn’t a single man whose arm Pereplyotkin couldn’t pin to the table.
Translated from Russian by Timothy D. Sergay
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