November 7, 2018
Tomorrow will be another picture
Published in the magazine “Seven Arts” – October 2018 Pompeii also lived happily: people went to mess, sculpted sculptures, until one unhappy day ash fell on their heads.…
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Stories and literary prose.
May 1, 2013
I Will Cross-Stitch a Star of David for You
George Frumker is a man who speaks with aphorisms. And our own. He describes himself as a figure-word master, and anyone who doubts this can read one or all of his five b…
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Tangential Flight
The name of Veronica Valley is known to lovers of author’s songs of different generations. Every time she comes to America, she becomes an event that is anticipated and r…
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Under a Lucky Star
In the 60-70s, no big concert was complete without the duo Alla Ioshpe – Stakhan Rakhimov. They met in 1960, in the final of the amateur contest, where they shared the fi…
ReadDecember 30, 2012
Concert for Gretchen
Concert for Gretchen 1 I have devoted my whole life to music, writing, naively believing that it was necessary for someone other than myself. And now, in retrospect, I re…
ReadNovember 4, 2012
Point of Intersection
Point of intersection (Blues-style monologues) Cat on the windowsill They gave me the plebeian name of Murka, or they could have called me Elvira or Isabella. The murk ev…
ReadDecember 26, 2011
The Night is Bright
Journal of the Word No. 71 « We are all spinning our fates spinning ... N. gumilev “Let it be night for you, light.” Mm. Tsvetaeva Dmitry Roshka hardly concealed his irri…
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Muse (excerpt)
(excerpt) 1 The Kiev railway station was met with tedious, cold drizzle, and it seemed to Vike that during the twenty hours of her journey, someone had torn out the summe…
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Medicine for a Migraine
A story. It is based on real events that happened in the late 20s. 1 With a suitcase in hand, in a short double-breasted coat, new boots and a sailboat cap, Leva walked t…
ReadDecember 26, 2011
Music Teacher
1 The long autumn ended on a gray December morning. For one night, the city turned grey. And this gray hair at once erased the remains of rain-washed foliage from stiffen…
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By the Very Blue Sea
fragment Two roads led from the boarding house to the beach: a short, trampled, with sharp turns, a dusty path, and a long one through the Bird Park. Sonya chose second. …
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Painting
The plane was flying over the ocean, and I was flying in it, clinging to the armrests. I was not a bird in a previous life. Or maybe it was, and something terrible interr…
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Rita
The children of the military generation are... 1 - Look at that,“ Ermec shouted to his wife, picking up a broken branch from the grass, “these thieves were carrying pears…
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Queen of Spades
1 The June Sunday morning surprised with an unusual stuffiness, and the day promised to be just as hot and stuffy. Neighbors engaged in the usual weekend business: women …
ReadDecember 26, 2011
B Flat
Music comes from noise. Sometimes out of silence. And sometimes out of nothing, when an insecure, fragile melody heard only by you, gets along with you and then pursues u…
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Four Seasons
She came out of nowhere. The day before, at dusk, in front of the gates of the neighboring courtyard, there was a truck with the legs of chairs sticking out from under th…
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Semolina
An old one-storey house stood on a street planted with lindens. From mid-May to the end of June, old lindens bloomed. One by one, the old women pulled out stagnant in the…
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To Soar!
- Each outstanding orchestra has its own individuality, manner of performance, sound. What is the peculiarity of virtuoso, comparing with Other chamber orchestras? - Of c…
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