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    By Voden Bik

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    Who knows what he values most in life? This can only be understood when you lose everything. And if there is a chance to return something, you face a difficult choice

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVoden Bik
    Release dateMar 8, 2023
    ISBN9798215440704
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    Voden Bik

    I was born and lived in Russia for a long time. I moved to Turkey a few years ago and currently live here. During my life I have written many stories, scripts, poems and songs. Now I decided to try to evaluate my talent with the help of an independent reader. I hope I can do it

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      Choice - Voden Bik

      Choice

      Voden Bik

      Published by Voden Bik, 2023.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      CHOICE

      First edition. March 8, 2023.

      Copyright © 2023 Voden Bik.

      Written by Voden Bik.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Choice

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      - I'm tired of watching him suffer. How can I help him?

      - Nothing. No one will let you.

      - Let's give him at least the right to choose.

      - I'm tired of your whining. Send him a Grandmommy, let him decide for himself.

      - At least so. At least so. Thanks.

      1. 

      Alice opened his eyes and stretched lazily. The sheet under him, as usual, was huddled into an uneven ball, and the pillow was covered with brown spots from drool that escaped in a dream mixed with the red dry wine drunk the night before.

      His left hand automatically reached for the next pillow, but stopped halfway there. This pillow had been emptying for two months now, but Alice couldn't get used to it. Helen died. Leukemia ate her literally in ten days. No one could even imagine that death would come so quickly and suddenly. But the doctors were powerless.

      God is cruel – Stephen King once wrote, seems.

      God is unexpectedly cruel, Alice amended. Everyone expects death sooner or later. Life is just a one–way road from birth to death, and driving in the oncoming lane will not be punished by the traffic police. Such a movement is simply not possible, which means there is no need for

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