The Chaplet of the Love Vicissitude, or the Delights of Hedonism

      Masha had a wonderful wedding with Emil, and she is already carrying an unborn child — the offspring of Kurbatov and Smolyanitskaya. Pasha graduated from school and entered the art building of the Slavic Culture State Academy. And at this time Emil remembered his most inexperienced, but one of the most sincere passions from the summer camp. Therefore, one winter day he quickly bought tickets to Orel at Paveletsky railway station and after arrival there Emil ordered a taxi to the camp from the Railway Station Square. After asking the taxi driver to wait for him and paying him extra for waiting, Emil got to the territory, haggled with the guards for a short time and found Biryukov, asking him about Anya. 'You showed up, Kurbatov! When you left then, Anya buzzed all my ears about you! Then she went to Orel to move from there to Moscow! She went to look for you! But who would have known what was happening to her now…' chef grunted.        He was returning to Moscow with an unpleasant aftertaste in his soul. On the way, Emil was tormented by a single question: why didn’t he say anything to her at parting, and so coldly and unresponsively abandoned the girl who really became attached to him? After all, she wasn’t some fleeting attraction for him, Emil still think about her. But if even her own father doesn’t know anything about her, then how can Emik hope that she will find him? There was no hope for that. No one but Masha could comfort Emil that day. He told her about it, but she didn’t reject him and only loved her husband even more.        Now Emil is thirty-five years old, but he still remember his country yard affair with the chef’s daughter with tears in his eyes. And if by some miracle Emil had been invited to visit the past, then he would have changed everything on that fateful day and would have told her everything. It’s all the fault of the damned windiness. The sharp Chaplet of the Love Vicissitudes closed up with ashy shroud of grim cerement over its next victim, the ordinary girl from province Anya Biryukova, in ill-fated moment…