Communication: “Eta Nevazhna”
I was about to ask her name, but a man tapped my shoulder. “She – mine,” he said in Russian.I sighed.
I typed “never mind” into Google Translate. I told him verbatim what the translator told me: “Eta nevazhna.”
I turned back, and he seized me by the throat.
I swung my fist at his head. Strangers grabbed both of us. They threw us out of the club.
Later, I learned what I really said was “it doesn’t matter.”
Mateo Toska is an American writer, Russian translator, and anarcho-communist living somewhere in the post-Soviet space.
Mariam Chagelishvilli is a freelance artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She mainly works on digital illustrations and short comics. Apart from digital art, she enjoys drawing with ink, sculpting and reading.