Nick Neim's Stories

Tag: history

  • WHY I DON’T LIKE KING DAVID

    Characters of modern times are fabled by the author. Any resemblance to living or deceased people is purely coincidental. A short story If you presume that you can create a new plot in this life, then you either don’t muse deeply enough about it or you don’t know much enough. And it doesn’t matter where…

  • MURKA

    PREFACE I always knew that aliens exist. Nor did I suspected it, not guessed, but knew for sure! Well, to be precise, I knew it not from my birth, but from the time we exchanged our apartment. In my childhood my parents and I lived in an apartment consisting of one room and a small…

  • A PRESENT

    A short story “The company, halt the march! We’ll spend the night here!” I commanded. The few remaining log buildings from the former village Zorka stood empty and abandoned. But for the soldiers, tired from the long trek, rest and sleep under the roofs of dilapidated barns was a gift of fate. The next day…

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 5 – Concerns and Meetings

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER FIVE – CONCERNS AND MEETINGS Now, many years after moving, past events look like filming in an accelerated rhythm: we arrived, learned a language, learned a specialty, got settled, raised children, helped relatives to settle, communicated with friends and even traveled. But, in fact, life then, compared to now, did…

  • TO CROSS THE RUBICON

    Sci-fi short story 1 It was a typical ritual. The graduating cadets were reporting their readiness to travel on a temporal launch boat into the past. There they studied a selected episode of history and in practice tried to violate the theoretical law of invariance of the past. And professor Sacks advised and admonished the…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 76 – Latest Moscow sketches

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY SIX – LATEST MOSCOW SKETCHES Sometimes we returned to the resident’s headquarter – our SRISI, although over time the role and importance of the central management decreased. Perhaps this was due to the development of democracy in the country, when the general, the party and hundreds of…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 73 – The Moscow experiment: Interesting situations. Work and life (Part 1)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE – THE MOSCOW EXPERIMENT: INTERESTING SITUATIONS. WORK AND LIFE (PART 1) 1. Interesting situations Although Tbilisi and Moscow were cities of the same country (USSR), the customs, views and behavior of the people in them were so different that it seemed to me that sometimes in Moscow…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 69 – Years in the Medical School (Part 4)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY NINE – YEARS IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL (PART 4) Sometime in the middle of my medical school, my dad emigrated. My wife and I saw him and Rimma off at the city train station. I didn’t go to Moscow for the farewell; we had not yet become close…