Nick Neim's Stories

Tag: immigration

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 7 – Miscellaneous

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIX – MISCELLANEOUS One of my favorite styles in writing is potpourri, that is, a kaleidoscope of colorful events that gradually form into a pattern, canvas, fabric, in a word, material for an unexpected outfit – a novella. My readers are apparently familiar with “The Story of Chivali”, “Operation Singapore”,…

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 6 – My entire family gathers here

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIX – MY ENTIRE FAMILY GATHERS HERE How did the immigration mechanism usually work? People applied for entry and had interview at US embassies in various countries. Naturally, we went through it at the US Embassy in the USSR, during the years of perestroika, when citizens began to be…

  • 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…

  • OPERATION “SINGAPORE”

    NICK NEIM FOREWORD I don’t know how important this preface is, but in case anyone is curious to know how sometimes a short story transfers into a novella, I’ll give you an example. I once presented to readers a story of two friends living in different countries in different hemispheres. It was associated with a…

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 4 – Kaplan and Welfare

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER FOUR – KAPLAN AND WELFARE Probably one of the most important issues is the topic of restoring the previous specialty. As I see it, the simplest, although not the easiest, solution was for mathematicians, and even more so if they were not against changing their theoretical mathematics to applied mathematics.…