Café Boris
Finally putting my cafe boris stories into a collection. If I can find them all.
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Café Boris (Part 1)
It was three years ago that Dmitri lost his teaching job. The state school had simply run out of the money to pay him.
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Cafe Boris - the play
Cast Dmitri – a customer at Café Boris and ‘narrator’ Boris - proprietor of Café Boris Olyena – the chef Sergei – a regular Igor – a customer...
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Café Boris - The smoking ban
“Excuse me,” a tourist said to Boris one day, “am I allowed to smoke in here?” “There is no smoking in this cafe,” Boris said. “I am sorry, I have...
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Café Boris - The Winter Festival
It was a quiet winter’s morning in Café Boris. The only customers were tourists, all of whom Boris was ignoring. They sat there in the cold of an...
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Café Boris and precautions taken for the prevention of tiger attack
It was a normal day in Café Boris up to the point when Sergei tried to leave and found a policeman blocking his exit. “What’s up with you?” he said...
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Cafe Boris and the Aid Convoy
Viktor’s day began early. Sergei collected him at just after 4.00 a.m. and drove him from his flat, on the outskirts of Luhansk, to the Russian...
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Café Boris and the dead cat dance
Boris was marking up a chalk sign in his café, listing the flaws in each of the café’s dishes. It epitomised the logic of life at Café Boris. Boris...
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Café Boris and the Health and Safety Notice
The Luhansk Ekspres was open on his usual table when Dmitri entered the café, with a bottle of vodka and a glass sitting beside the paper. ‘Boris...
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Café Boris and the mewing menace
With the threat of war hanging over the country, the tourist trade in Luhansk, sparse at the best of times, disappeared overnight, like the promises...
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Café Boris removals
It was just another day in Café Boris. Outside the last remnants of the previous week’s snow slowly melted into an unpleasant slush, covering a layer...
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Café Boris – employment opportunities
Dmitri entered Café Boris one morning to find a gorilla sitting at his usual table. The gorilla waved at him. “Dmitri,” it said, “it’s me, Sergei.” “...
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Café Boris – The deadly assassin and the spoon
An atmosphere followed the man into Café Boris and no sooner had he entered than three separate groups of tourists got up and left in short...
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Café Boris – the first genuine obituary
Dmitri was unsurprised to find Café Boris heaving with tourists when he arrived for his morning coffee. On Tuesdays the café was always full, as if...
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Café Boris – the football match
“It’s the football tomorrow night,” Sergei said to Boris one morning. “Football,” Boris shrugged, “what do I care. I don’t follow football.” “It’s...
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Café Boris – The missing man
One morning Dmitri sat in Café Boris, eating an early lunch and reading a book he had been sent by one of his former students, a self-published...
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Café Boris – Dmitri’s millions
At Dmitri’s insistence they had put the share certificate back in the chest, replaced the floorboards and finished the removal job. “We can look at...
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The Café Boris Writers Group
On 17 July 2011 at approximately 6.13 pm something unusual happened. Boris had an idea. He joined Dmitri at his usual table where he was nursing a...
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Kiev
A few days later, Dmitri was waiting impatiently for Sergei to pick him up at his flat for the long drive to Kiev. He was late. ‘Why did I agree to...
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