Lana V Lynx

Joined June 2021

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Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist

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Coffin Money - 1
Day 1 at the hospital An 83-year-old woman named Sarah is in the hospital with bad stomach aches. She’d been brought in by her son David, despite her kicking and screaming.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Chapters
Our Trip to Rome - 2
We are staying at a really nice Bed & Breakfast in Rome, near the world-famous Coliseum and Termini - Rome's main railway station. They call it El Dorado Colleseum Hotel. It is located on the second floor of a big building that judging from its architecture and design used to be a 6-story wealthy family palazzo. It has high ceilings, a grand entrance and a big spiral staircase in the middle, with an obviously later addition of an old elevator that has a wooden bench and a set of double doors, with the inside wooden doors that must be open and closed manually. I have seen such elevators in some old New York City buildings, and they are most probably of the turn of the 20th century or early 1910s.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Wander
Moscow's Calling -12
This call happened on Dec.25, 2023. “Hello, Donnie?” “Yes, Vlad! I’m so happy you called! You haven’t called me first in years!”
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in The Swamp
Our Trip to Rome
Every winter, my son and I travel around Christmas to warmer places. We both have long winter breaks as I teach and he is a student in academia, so we reward ourselves with a trip abroad. We've been to Brazil in 2019, Peru in 2021, and France last year. And this year, we decided to go to Rome.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Wander
Praise to Buckwheat . Top Story - December 2023.
Buckwheat is a non-cereal grain that is extremely popular in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe and in the entire post-Soviet space.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Feast
Who Is Eve 1.0?
*** To my friend Emily for her birthday.*** At the time, there were no other people to witness that the Eve we know was not the first woman ever created. But God and Adam knew.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Viva
Scarlet Sails
As a pre-teen, I loved the Scarlet Sails novella by Alexander Grin (full last name Grinevich), the most under-appreciated Neo-romantic Russian writer who lived a hard life and died a tragic death.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in BookClub
What Is A Woman?. Top Story - December 2023.
When I see videos like the one below with Charlie Kirk persistently asking college students one question, "What is a woman?" and students stumbling to answer or seemingly not able to give him an answer that would satisfy his inquisitive mind, as a teacher I'm baffled.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Viva
Fun with "-stans"
Recently, I published a story with some facts about my home country and got some good feedback on it, which led me to the idea to write up some fun facts about the countries and places whose name ends with "-stan."
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Wander
Putin is Undead
Oleh Smal drew the cartoon above in 2014. Putin had just annexed Crimea then and those of us who grew up in the Soviet Union knew he would not stop there. The vampire theme turned out to be prophetic.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in The Swamp
Copyright Violation or Fair Use?
Years ago (2003-2019), President Zelenskyy of Ukraine was a successful comedian and co-founder of "Kvartal-95," an entertainment company and studio that produced numerous popular movies and TV shows, including Make A Comedian Laugh, a reality TV competition for standup comics.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Geeks
Who do you see first?
Is it his young wife Or his old mother-in-law? Who do you see first? *** An old woman’s eye Or a young lady’s left ear?
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Poets