The Master and Margarita
From the album ““Life in a Desk Drawer” by Anton Glotov”
"Guess what, I'm in trouble. Come, come, come!"
But no one came. The fire roared in the stove, and rain lashed against the windows. Then the last thing happened. I took the heavy copies of the novel and the rough notebooks from the desk drawer and began to burn them. This is terribly difficult to do, because scribbled paper burns reluctantly. Breaking my nails, I tore up the notebooks, put them upright between the logs, and a poker stirred the sheets. The ashes from time to time overpowered me, suffocating the flame, but I fought with it, and the novel, stubbornly resisting, nevertheless perished.