Red Riding Hood: The Letter from the Wolf

№ 02

Золушка. Пункт выдачи ожиданий

Marina is fifty-five. She works at a parcel pickup point, helps her adult daughter, lives near her mother, who is slipping ever deeper into dementia, and has spent years waiting for the man she loves to finally become a true partner. After a complicated eye operation, Marina begins to see white inscriptions on some parcels that no one else notices. They are not addresses or order numbers. They are people’s unspoken expectations. “Appreciate everything I have done for you.” And for the first time she is forced to ask herself: how much of her love was care—and how much was a demand for gratitude? Where does help end and obligation begin? And what will remain of a relationship if she stops waiting for the other person to change one day? “Cinderella. The Expectations Pickup Point” is a contemporary psychological novel about family debts, motherhood, dementia, love, and growing up after fifty. Because sometimes Cinderella does not need to wait for the prince. Sometimes she simply needs to stop waiting.

№ 03

Спящая красавица. Принц ИИ

A woman over forty is used to measuring herself by her usefulness and how busy she is. After a marketing reorganization and the automation of part of her work, the familiar source of stability begins to disappear. She retrains as a Data Scientist, trying to become indispensable again, and discovers that a new profession can be acquired faster than a new life.

№ 04

Кошечка в сапожках

After her divorce, Svetlana learned to look like a woman who has everything figured out. She photographs successful people, creates flawless images for them, and lives behind a carefully assembled display of her own. But her cat, Musya, sees something else: the fear of losing a client, dependence on other people’s approval, and an ever-growing number of compromises. When a new assignment requires her to cross her own boundaries, Svetlana must decide what matters more—preserving her success or finally stopping the loss of herself.