#120 Volodya
Find today’s 5141 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/120.html Travis review: This may be one of Chekhov’s darkest stories. It drips with gloomy teenage male angst and ends with a bang. Volodya, “a plain, shy, sickly-looking lad of seventeen,” is uncomfortable in this world. He lives with his vain and superficial mother. The family’s fortune has been squandered by her …