Daria Valeeva

“The words of Lily” by Daria Valeeva

Submitted to Contest #36

19.04.19.I haven't been feeling well these last few days. It started on Sunday, when the muscles in my shoulders formed a painful, heavy collar around my neck, preventing me from moving, sitting, working, or even lying down.I do a lot of weird things. First, I now sit not at the table, but on the sofa, put a pouf under my feet and put a shoe table from the corridor next to it so that I can put coffee or tea on it. I don't eat very well and I don't look so-so. I don't have the strength for myself, and I don't expect to. I'm exhausted.Here and...

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“The Onion” by Daria Valeeva

Lena! Lena!No. I will never go back there again. Just the shadows of existence, unhappy people, my hopeless pain, oozing juice, rotten milk, torment-enough.I run - let me run. I may act like a coward to someone-to Legar and the entourage – I know who, but it's the only way I can get rid of the meanness, the vile abomination that I've been plunged into.What was the abomination? Very simple. Just elementary. I. Am. Not. A herd. You belong in a shitty paddock, in a small, IKEA-furnished cage; you and you and her - you are all cattle, if you do ...

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“Vasya`s Story” by Daria Valeeva

Submitted to Contest #32

"These.""You always know how to make the right choice, Vasily Ivanovich!"- a smiling woman in the sales hall held out a box from her strong young hands to the knotted, worn hands of Vasily Ivanovich. He bought new shoes every year, almost always on the shift of the smiling saleswoman.He was returning to the small house that his father had built on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, and now surrounded on all sides by hordes of identical and multi-colored high-rise buildings in the dark. A couple was walking towards him, a girl and a g...

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“Nana” by Daria Valeeva

Submitted to Contest #31

- For centuries and thousands of years Virgin Maria have been empowering women with spiritual power and moral clarity. Nowadays, people prey to Virgin to survive the mundane obstacles, strengthen the marriage and protect family home. Offer the necklace with silver patina right now and we will get you a discount for a gorgeous headscarf, that will gently flow from your head during the sacrament of prayer and define your modesty and natural grace... Stop.- A woman choked and sipped from her thermos. - Are you fucking crazy? Why did you write t...

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“CONCERT MAX” by Daria Valeeva

Max jumped off the bed as fast as he could. Forcefully brushing his teeth, leaving bloody marks on them, he remembered what he saw in a dream. That was Ellen, a “Grammy” star, for whom he did a concert in Moscow. But in a dream her flight landed in Marrakesh. He also saw how she called him by phone and shouted in a strange language. Her angry speech was accompanied by pleasant oriental music, which turned out to be his third alarm.Only now, he noticed how exhausted he was. He felt like his brain was drained and loaded with unnecessary stuff....

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“Promotion” by Daria Valeeva

Submitted to Contest #29

-         Shut up, - barked Nikolay Petrovich.-         This is how you talk to me now! Oh God…It`s unbearable! One more business trip!-         Tanya, why would you whine all the time? Won`t you understand – I do this for promotion, after all. -         Promotion! What an office word! Your son is turning eight tomorrow! You do not promote, you just step on our des...

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