Neighbors. Sometimes you live with them for decades, not knowing what they do, who they are and how they look like. She wasn’t the type of a woman who made friends with the occupants of the same staircase. She silently passed them along the stairs, she took a glimpse of their shopping bags, noticed the dogs taken for a walk, said all those...
When the boy was born he was less happy than his wife. She really wanted to have a child. He really wanted to have her. He found her attractive since the day they met at that home get-together with their college friends. Those were the days. They were half as rich but twice as happy and blissful. She entered the room wearing the...
When the child was born she was head over heels. She had always dreamed of being a mother. It wasn’t about the wedding in a beautiful white dress and hundreds of guests. It wasn’t about the ceremony. She felt that she was lucky, as she didn’t have to fight for what others couldn’t take for granted. Her grandmother left her the flat since...
She gave up. There was no sense in making him live like everybody else. She accepted the things as they were. She arranged the furniture in the room. It was hard to put together the bed, to put inside a teddy bear, to fold the towels and little clothes. She was tiresome. When her room looked more like a child’s room she felt...
Maybe because of her mood, possibly out of boredom, she wanted to witness some changes. She was really curious whether this house prison was purely out of his laziness or he really had some serious mental problem and he just stayed there without a reason at all. She messed with the fuse a bit and she triggered a power cut solely in their...
She was in a crappy mood. She dove in his lifestyle completely. She was too heavy to walk and too afraid that someone she knew could see her in her state. Now it would be difficult to pretend that the situation was different and she put so much weight for no reason at all. She bunkered herself in her room. She ordered her...
As the weather was warm, she moved to the balcony. She buried herself in books, magazines, and cosmetics. She ate fruit and drank water, as she was terrified by the amount of weight she gained over the last few months. She could barely breathe. She lost everything: her studies, her social life, her freedom. She was deprived of everything she loved so much....
