Nick Neim's Stories

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  • 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…

  • FORGET THE WHITE MONKEY

    NIСK NEIM “Do not think about the white monkey and you will live thousand years.”  Ancient Chinese wisdom Many of those living in Russia and the former Republics think that every Russian who comes to live in the States settles down in New York City, in Brighton Beach. If he happens to live in Manhattan…

  • 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.…

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 3 – Getting used to a new life: study and work

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER THREE – GETTING USED TO A NEW LIFE: STUDY AND WORK The chapter “Getting used to a new life”, like a potpourri, actually consists of several motifs, connected and mixed over period of time – sometimes small, and sometimes quite significant. I still can’t decide how to recall them –…

  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 2 – Getting used to a new life: an apartment

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER TWO – GETTING USED TO A NEW LIFE: AN APARTMENT In the very first month of our life here, many events and meetings took place that significantly changed our situation as an emigrants. The main thing was that we found housing for ourselves and separated from my Dad’s one. It…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 79 – Departure and arrival

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE – DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL And then we returned home, and seeing offs after seeing offs began. Feasts. Farewells. My classmates gave me a farewell party at Sveta’s (I talked about it in Chapter 21). Soon the plane tickets were in our hands. So we said goodbye to our…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 78 – The last year at home: life before leaving

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY EIGHT – THE LAST YEAR AT HOME: LIFE BEFORE LEAVING The most surprising thing was the change in the rules of emigration. Previously, people moved out, literally broke out, anywhere (to Vienna, Rome) and then headed wherever they wanted, if they could. I really didn’t like the stories about the annual…