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Третьи сутки над оскудевшей людьми деревней, Михеевкой, в которой когда-то кипела и бурлила жизнь, стали чаще, чем обычно, в холодную пору, нависать серые унылые тучи, поливая землю, покрытую уже жухлыми осенними листьями, долгими обложными дождями. В природе, кроме сплошной мокряди — холода и сырости, ощущалась какая-то беспросветность, отражающаяся в глазах тех жалких остатков, что именуются «местные жители», преимущественно состоящие из стариков и так называемых «неудачников», не просыхавш…
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(Unpublished story allegedly by A.P. Chekhov)

A young man, a groom, really wanted to make gift for his bride and, after some thought, decided to buy a pair of chevrette gloves.
He and his sister went to a supply store for ladies. There he bought a pair of chevrette gloves. And at the same time his sister bought ladies' pantaloons for herself. However, an occasion came out. And it was in the fact that by delivering purchases to the addresses, the packages were mixed up: a package with pantaloons…
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The Jukebox

(A mini-story)

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This mini-story has its own background, just like everything that surrounds us and that we value, has a background.
During the jazz boom in America there would appear jazz stock exchanges on which new jazz-bands would appear like mushrooms after rain, and for them there would appear their producers. Sometimes musicians who met in the stock exchange created their own jazz band. Everything was going great. Success was just around the corner.
But then, one…
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