Liza- опрометчивый романс

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Birth of A Nation- An Excerpt of a Feature Article

As you all know, my COMPLETED feature article disappeared in April after the hard drive in my computer crashed. This left me absolutely devastated and lost; I didn’t know where to start when it came to redoing my feature article. Luckily, my computer is being repaired and I’ll be getting my COMPLETED feature article back…

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признание от души мученика(confessions from the soul of a martyr)

Before you begin, understand that I have no problems with religion as a whole and these are purely my own personal experiences and reflections. Religion, for many, is a saving grace and makes a major positive impact in their lives, I, however, PERSONALLY did not find religion helpful and often felt ashamed of my uncertainties…

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чердак (A is for Attic)

She loved to watch the dust, in the attic where she and her mother slept, where she watched the dust blanketed over old furniture, over untouched tables and chairs, over delicate china bowls and dollies, over her mother’s pillow. She had not been back for a while now. But this fact was indifferent to Greta…

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Галерея (G is for Gallery)

Art galleries have always scared her. Realities frozen in frames made her feel bland and insignificant, yet, she was drawn to how the essence of life could be captured through brush strokes and pigments.  Art made her look very closely at ordinary things. She caught herself gazing intently at her cutlery or the lifelines of…

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Леca (W is for Woods)

I was going to see the hangman, who lived all alone in the woods. They told me to follow the trail of whiskey bottles and trees scarred with ax blows along the branches. He lived in the center of the woods so it did not matter the route I took to his house and I…

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Pусский Гилмор девочки (Russian Gilmore Girls)

  My mom and I are the Russian Gilmore Girls. We would wake up late, squinting at the sun scolding us from the open window to get up. I would lounge for longer, courting the bedside book I’d been going steady with while my mother stumbled around in the kitchen. Within minutes the smell of…

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опрометчивый русский (recklessly russian)

  coming from the motherland of relentless cold,boundless danger, history, and risk, has made me see the world in shades of ivory, trembling, waiting for me to carve an adventure not yet had. i take after my culture more than I’d like to admit: seeing men burst into pubs, intentions hidden in layers of fur,…

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