After examining the doctor, I put my sister to bed, and I lie next to me on top of the blanket. I don’t even take off my clothes, I’m afraid of how she might react in the light of recent events. The doctor injected her with a sedative, so very soon Katya falls asleep, and I still lie until dawn, silently burying Chapter 7. Katya

"People find it easier to keep hot coals on their tongues than a secret." Socrates

Hope is self-deception, but that's all we have.

She goes from hand to hand, selling her honor.

This deceitful creature shows dust in the eyes,

Disappearing at the moment when...