The creepiness of her flatmate’s nature was again evident, as he stuck a piece of paper with a number of pregnancy dos and don’ts, including his doubtful medical comments and encouragements. He was a saint in a living body (a lonely saint, a monk secluded in his cave of meditation), as he offered to lower the rent. That was also what his mother...

He might have, actually, been a little bit mentally disturbed, as he stuck in the keyhole a list of things she should avoid eating. Whatever you call it: over-protectiveness or mollycoddling, or possibly a serious mental dysfunction. It wasn’t even his baby. They weren’t even friends. She doubted whether in these circumstances he could have ever had sex. On the other hand, he...

The child could also grow up evil. All murderers, rapists, assassins, terrorists had mothers. All prostitutes, thieves, alcoholics, drug-addicts had mothers. Fine, popes, presidents and surgeons also had mothers but their percentage was significantly lower. Serial killers had mothers too. That was the worst case scenario. And then it was her in the process. She couldn’t simply imagine herself as a mother of...

When the money came in, she went to the pharmacy to do something with this missing period. She bought a test. She pissed on it. Twice she checked the manual and the result on the plastic stick. And a slow realization that she was no longer alone came to her slowly but with a serious impact. Then she received a note. ‘Why are...

It was to be a busy year for her. A lot of classes. A tight schedule. She woke up early in the morning to attend her morning classes and came back in the late afternoon to prepare some dinner and to study till late at night. She was terrible during the exam session. Stressed. Incapable of working under pressure. Instead, she decided to...

Julia considered the situation strange but she was tempted by the location and the price. People were renting their flats for various reasons. Sometimes the price fell due to an unexpected death in the family, or something shameful happened there like murder or suicide, occasionally it was about the fungus or the faulty plumbing. Or they just couldn’t sell the place, since there...