Creative Writing: The Kozlovsky Family

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The sound of heavy pots crashing down from the woodstove awoke the weary members of the Kozlovsky family. Their scanty one-room log cabin managed to accommodate seven people but at the cost of any kind of privacy. Tatyana, the mother and steadfast backbone of the family, would remind her children that their father built this cabin with his own hands and without him, they would have no home. The thunderous clanking of pots continued, and even caused the nearby Petrovs to stir, but half of the Kozlovsky children rolled over, indifferent to the commotion. Katya, the middle child of five siblings, grabbed her moth-eaten pillow and stuffed her head between the bed– a straw-covered plank of wood– and the feather down which smelled of mildew and …show more content…
Where are you, whore?” Fyodor hollered, grasping around for the rickety kitchen table to guide him in the dark. In the back left corner of the cabin, Katya kicked her older brother Ivan and whispered, “Go and protect Mama.” But the groggy seventeen-year-old huffed and said, “I am plowing the fields in the early morning. I need sleep.” He turned away from Katya to face his slumbering brother Pavel …show more content…
The boy’s hands were even on her sister’s breasts. But Katya did not tattle. The last thing she wanted was to give Sofya a reason to tell their mother where Katya had been running off to.
“Mama?” Katya asked with hesitance. “Have you ever wished that you lived in the palace?” The unexpected question made Tatyana look up from her dough. “Don’t be silly. I don’t belong in the palace. And neither do you. It is not our place.” “Does Lady Katya wish she were a Sheremetev Duchess?” Sofya sneered. Katya ignored the tease. “Not even when you were younger, Mama?” “When I was young I wished to be a good wife,” Tatyana said, her bottom lip protruding out in a small frown. “I think you’ve always been a good wife to Papa,” Sofya told her mother. “I have. I have,” Tatyana repeated more to herself than to her daughter. “But what if you were the wife of a Sheremetev? Don’t you think life would be much better in the palace?” Katya asked. Tatyana stopped attacking the dough for a second time. “Katya, where is all this nonsense coming from?” She furrowed her brow and eyed her daughter in

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