by Oleg Veretskiy | Jul 24, 2025 | Essays
Bottom photo: “CPCP: 72 Фотофакта прекрасного минулого.ʼ” Український Інтерес. Used with permission. Top: Adobe stock photo. Odesa of My Childhood #6 “Playing Hooky” by Oleg Veretskiy “Yesterday, right after the first day celebrations, the teacher told us...
by Charlotte Pierce | Jul 20, 2025 | Essays
“The beach always greeted us with the scent of algae that had perished during the night storm, the ruddy sight of boiled shrimp, hearty bellows of “sugar roosters on a sti-i-i-ick!”, bouncy balls attached to rubber bands and wrapped in cheap multi-colored foil –...
by Charlotte Pierce | Jun 29, 2025 | Community
Welcome to our first “The Sentinel’s Circle” book discussion, June 29, 2025 In June, we launched “Oleg’s Book Club” and decided to meet on the last Sunday of every month at 2 pm US ET (11am PT, 1pm CT, 8pm CET, 9pm Kyiv). Oleg attends when he can,...
by Charlotte Pierce | Jun 29, 2025 | Community
Photo: Oleg, Kelly, Marina, Charlotte, Renee, Darya, Nikola, Mario, Jessie, and Mylu at the June 29 plenary session of Oleg’s Book Club. Editorial assistant Jessie (covering eyes) may be recovering from her latest half Iron Man… Building Community in...
by Oleg Veretskiy | Jun 1, 2025 | Essays
Oleg continues writing and sending us his essays through all the chaos of the war. Send Oleg an email – he’d love to hear your thoughts about his writing! Odesa of My Childhood #4 “Umbrella” by Oleg Veretskiy “The roof of the dovecote,...