Перелом
The Fracture
B1 · Intermediate · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story
An intermediate story that walks through a Russian injury clinic end to end: black ice outside your own front door, an argument you lose on every point, ticket number forty-seven, an X-ray, and six weeks of plaster. The title is the diagnosis — and also what the story is actually about.
Characters
- Igor (Игорь) — Thirty-eight, stubborn
- Dasha (Даша) — Igor's wife
- Pyotr Semyonovich (Пётр Семёнович) — In the waiting room
- Anna Viktorovna (Анна Викторовна) — The doctor
Vocabulary from this story
- перелом — fracture
- ушиб — bruise
- травма — injury
- рука — hand
- запястье — wrist
- палец — finger
- локоть — elbow
- кость — bone
- боль — pain
- сердце — heart
- травмпункт — injury clinic
- врач — doctor