Lidia Stanchenko

Lidia Stanchenko is a writer, journalist, and photographer born in Moscow, Russia. She holds a degree in linguistics with a focus on Mandarin and English. For many years, she worked in Beijing as a journalist covering the latest news from China. Currently she is based in the Dominican Republic. Her fiction stories and essays have appeared in online editions and printed magazines including Russian literary journal Literaturnaya Ucheba and English-language magazine The Antonym.

The Storyteller’s Notes

My mornings always began the same way—I woke up and saw the wall. On that wall was a thin strip of torn wallpaper that grew wider and wider each day. If I managed to tear off too big a piece, I knew it was time to cut my nails.
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