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#068 Not Wanted

Posted on May 2, 2014 / Updated May 2, 2014 by Steve Steffensen

Today’s story is 2319 words long and can be found here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/068.html Travis Review: This story could be called “How I Started Drinking” or “They Drove Me To Vodka.” Zaikin starts off the story by leaving the train station to his summer villa in a foul mood and he is not the only one as “a crowd …

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#040 Mari D’elle

Posted on March 25, 2014 / Updated March 25, 2014 by Steve Steffensen

Today’s story is 2015 words: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/040.html Travis Review: I was fairly disappointed with this story, expecting more. At first I thought this would be the story of an opera singer and her daughter reunited. Like Chekhov was going against type with a tale of a selfless diva. But the daughter never shows up again after …

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