Miraculous Mandarin
This mysterious story happened at the end of an ordinary day in the slums of the most ordinary metropolis. Everything was as usual: beggars were collecting garbage, a policeman was arresting an unwary motorist. And from his wretched dwelling, surrounded by a dump, a "moth" appeared - her time had come.
The girl hastily prepped herself up, looking at the shard of the old mirror, and went about her usual evening business - to lure random men into her nets. But this evening an unusual gentleman was hooked. He looked like a real alien against the backdrop of the city slums - in old-fashioned clothes, with an intricate haircut and an aristocratic article. Who was this wonderful mandarin and where did it come from?
One way or another, the Chinese was seized by such an unbridled passion for the girl that she, frightened, shot him right in the chest. The mandarin fell down dead, but when the girl came closer, he suddenly grabbed her hand. A casual passer-by saved the girl from the aggressive attention of the alien: the young man hit the Chinese man with all his might on the head, and he fell again - this time as if for good. The girl and the young man hastily hid the body of the tangerine from the eyes of a passing policeman, and after a couple of moments they were horrified to find that the Chinese ... had disappeared.
The young man took the frightened girl to a cafe to drown fear and shock in wine. So, glass after glass, it became more and more cheerful, and the events of the past evening were all blurring. The girl smiled and danced until she suddenly found the same damn tangerine next to her.
The Chinese man chased her all the way from the cafe to the slum and already stretched out his hands to her, but a young man and a policeman came to the aid of the unfortunate victim. They beat the Chinese with their fists, feet and everything that came to hand, and threw the seemingly lifeless body into the river. But the killers did not have time to mourn their own crime, as the mandarin came out again, alive and well. Terrified, the "rescuers" fled, leaving the poor girl alone with her tormentor.
The strange Chinese man gently touched the girl's hand, and at that moment a mystical connection arose between the victim and the persecutor. Now they were no longer afraid of each other, fear turned into tenderness, then - passion. And, barely satisfying her, the mysterious mandarin finally gave up its ghost.
Petersburg Twilight
Our hero was walking along the dull, rainy St. Petersburg avenues, when he was suddenly pierced by an unbearable thought,
that the city took his life, took away his dream, deprived of his ideals, and now all that remains for him is to drag out a miserable existence next to thousands of their own kind, only trying to look prosperous, but deeply unhappy inside.
Once he saw an ideal in his beloved. But today, having become a companion of his life, she constantly torments him, languishing with a sense of the worthlessness of her own being and the need for love.
She, too, constantly appears the ghost of a faded dream and lost ideals.
The hero is trying to save his dream from the city that destroys it, to regain harmony in his soul, to return that feeling of flight that inspired him in his youth.
But he's not the same. Dreams and ideals, which used to lead him into awe-inspiring delight, now cause only irritation and aggression.
The hero wants to escape from the present, tries to travel back in time, to become what he was in his youth. Having miraculously found himself in the past, he meets himself and his beloved - young, romantic and sincerely striving for a happy future.
The sensitive Girl senses the presence of a hero who has appeared from the future next to her, tries to touch him and is horrified by the picture of the future that suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. But the vision disappears, and the happy youth takes its toll ...
In a thirst for peace, the inhabitants of the city gather for a procession with the cross.
In the morning on a bright holiday, everyone feels a surge of love for each other.
But the holiday ends, and our heroes are left alone with their fate.
They face an unpredictable and harsh future, not seeing a way out of the impasse of their existence.
This is their elusive dream, which the city crushes under itself.
The hero is horrified by this vision, but he still finds the mental strength to try to preserve it ...
This mysterious story happened at the end of an ordinary day in the slums of the most ordinary metropolis. Everything was as usual: beggars were collecting garbage, a policeman was arresting an unwary motorist. And from his wretched dwelling, surrounded by a dump, a "moth" appeared - her time had come.
The girl hastily prepped herself up, looking at the shard of the old mirror, and went about her usual evening business - to lure random men into her nets. But this evening an unusual gentleman was hooked. He looked like a real alien against the backdrop of the city slums - in old-fashioned clothes, with an intricate haircut and an aristocratic article. Who was this wonderful mandarin and where did it come from?
One way or another, the Chinese was seized by such an unbridled passion for the girl that she, frightened, shot him right in the chest. The mandarin fell down dead, but when the girl came closer, he suddenly grabbed her hand. A casual passer-by saved the girl from the aggressive attention of the alien: the young man hit the Chinese man with all his might on the head, and he fell again - this time as if for good. The girl and the young man hastily hid the body of the tangerine from the eyes of a passing policeman, and after a couple of moments they were horrified to find that the Chinese ... had disappeared.
The young man took the frightened girl to a cafe to drown fear and shock in wine. So, glass after glass, it became more and more cheerful, and the events of the past evening were all blurring. The girl smiled and danced until she suddenly found the same damn tangerine next to her.
The Chinese man chased her all the way from the cafe to the slum and already stretched out his hands to her, but a young man and a policeman came to the aid of the unfortunate victim. They beat the Chinese with their fists, feet and everything that came to hand, and threw the seemingly lifeless body into the river. But the killers did not have time to mourn their own crime, as the mandarin came out again, alive and well. Terrified, the "rescuers" fled, leaving the poor girl alone with her tormentor.
The strange Chinese man gently touched the girl's hand, and at that moment a mystical connection arose between the victim and the persecutor. Now they were no longer afraid of each other, fear turned into tenderness, then - passion. And, barely satisfying her, the mysterious mandarin finally gave up its ghost.
Petersburg Twilight
Our hero was walking along the dull, rainy St. Petersburg avenues, when he was suddenly pierced by an unbearable thought,
that the city took his life, took away his dream, deprived of his ideals, and now all that remains for him is to drag out a miserable existence next to thousands of their own kind, only trying to look prosperous, but deeply unhappy inside.
Once he saw an ideal in his beloved. But today, having become a companion of his life, she constantly torments him, languishing with a sense of the worthlessness of her own being and the need for love.
She, too, constantly appears the ghost of a faded dream and lost ideals.
The hero is trying to save his dream from the city that destroys it, to regain harmony in his soul, to return that feeling of flight that inspired him in his youth.
But he's not the same. Dreams and ideals, which used to lead him into awe-inspiring delight, now cause only irritation and aggression.
The hero wants to escape from the present, tries to travel back in time, to become what he was in his youth. Having miraculously found himself in the past, he meets himself and his beloved - young, romantic and sincerely striving for a happy future.
The sensitive Girl senses the presence of a hero who has appeared from the future next to her, tries to touch him and is horrified by the picture of the future that suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. But the vision disappears, and the happy youth takes its toll ...
In a thirst for peace, the inhabitants of the city gather for a procession with the cross.
In the morning on a bright holiday, everyone feels a surge of love for each other.
But the holiday ends, and our heroes are left alone with their fate.
They face an unpredictable and harsh future, not seeing a way out of the impasse of their existence.
This is their elusive dream, which the city crushes under itself.
The hero is horrified by this vision, but he still finds the mental strength to try to preserve it ...
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