Listen to your angel: short non-fiction stories
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Anna Melnichenko. Listen to your angel: short non-fiction stories
The first story. One Day in October
The second story. The Second Wagon1
The third story. Forest story
The fourth story. The meeting with tornado
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I love to live life to the full – to feel every moment. I understand this way as the only right way for me after one story. We live and don’t realize that our lives may stop at any point or at any time. I was a 19-year-old girl, have a diploma in nursing and worked as an assistant dentist in the center of Moscow. I intended to study in the Moscow University of Medicine – I wanted to be a doctor. It was in the morning of a day in October 1993, when the coup started. That day should have gone down in history as а White House Assault or The October Uprising or Black October, because a lot of people were killed during tank shelling and the use of firearms.
I was planning to go to the clinic, for my second job shift. The flat where my parents and I lived was a short drive away from the action. I have no car at the time – my parents were relatively poor. Although all is relative in our lives.
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– I won’t stay here! I want to leave this place! Quickly! We can reschedule… Let us call all our patients and offer them new dates.
I said “Yes” and in a half-hour time, we could be free.
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