Author: Eric Leroy

Farewell to the Village

Контент 14+ (упоминание спаривания животных без описания процесса)
Sitting on my balcony at sundown in Bliznatsi, Bulgaria, I prepare my mind to return to Moscow. It is hard to pull away this time, and one day I won't. I'll stay here. But for now, duty…and money…summon me back. Once upon a time, the very name 'Moscow'' was a word containing what I will call ''gray magic.' Intrigue, danger, seduction, inscrutability.
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Jackals and Jackasses

Контент 18+ (использование обсценной лексики, описание сексуальных сцен без подробностей)
So. Stupidity mounted atop stupidity. By now everyone has heard about the Maxim magazine model Ksenia Kalugina who, along with the editors of "Sovetda Lyubov", is facing a possible three-year prison sentence for posing in an old out-of-use church in Gari, Tatarstan, wearing a transparent bridal gown that revealed her 'sexy' underwear. Do I really need to retell the story?
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Deathless World Beyond My Dark

Контент 18+
Last night I saw an English language program called "Futurescape" which gave out some astonishing information. It seems — as we wait for North Korea to start a nuclear war – that genetic discovery of a spellbinding magnitude are just around the corner. The aging process will be slowed to a snail-like crawl, vital organ transplants will become as available and common as chewing gum, and even people
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Running from the Sun

Контент 18+
The general opinion of Russians that foreign people have has nothing to do with polar bears in Red Square. It is quite simply this: they think that Russia is a nation of crooks and drunks. About the crookedness, the overall criminality of the country, I have come — with EXTREME reluctance — to agree. And this sad conclusion flies in the face of the fact that every last … Read the rest

Jekyll and Hyde and the Road to Inferno (continuation of Running from the Sun)

Контент 18+ (чрезмерное употребление алкоголя вредит Вашему здоровью)
'Addiction' is one of those words — like 'happiness', 'success'' and 'pornography''– that is hard to define. that everyone thinks he has a handle on until he tries to explain it. One of the problems is Western (re. American) psychobabble, which causes such terms to end up meaning everything and therefore nothing. On the other hand, how about this? ''Alcoholism is the … Read the rest