Table of Contents Toggle Part One. The Running Champion. Part Two. Capturing Attention. Part One. The Running Champion. Kostya was the champion of Kyiv in running. Just once. A tall, lanky, smart Jewish boy. He always boasted that he could run fast and even walked through the streets in a Continue Reading
Like flies
There is a newspaper called “Evening Kyiv.” Once, during the USSR era, it was a sort of social and Soviet evening paper featuring editorials, articles of interest to the locals, weather forecasts, and, of course, a TV guide. People mainly subscribed to it for the TV listings, to be honest. Continue Reading
Space of Freedom
(used LLM as a ghostwriter) In an era when democracy is proclaimed as the highest form of governance and a model to emulate, let’s take a moment to remove our rose-colored glasses and look behind the scenes of this magnificent theater of absurdity. On stage, we find not only highly Continue Reading
Kissing Hank’s ass
James Huber, trans. Kissing Hank’s Ass (jhuger.com) This morning, someone knocked on my door. When I opened it, I found a well-groomed, nicely dressed couple standing in front of me. The man spoke first: John: “Hi! I’m John, and this is Mary.”Mary: “Hi! We came to invite you to kiss Continue Reading