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    Anxieties of a Bank Cashier
    Anxieties of a Bank Cashier
    Anxieties of a Bank Cashier
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    Anxieties of a Bank Cashier

    By David Brining

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    A short story about life in the chaos and uncertainty of post-Communist Russia. Nina Ribakova is worried about her son Ivan, who is undergoing an operation. She reflects on her relationship with her stern, unbending father and jokey, easy-going brother, and befriends a young cashier called Nastia who is having problems with her young sister.

    Added bonus of a recipe, a song and two pictures of Volgograd to illustrate the location of the story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Brining
    Release dateAug 19, 2012
    ISBN9781476276076
    Anxieties of a Bank Cashier
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    David Brining

    The author has lived and worked in several different countries and has been, variously, a camel jockey, a tennis coach, an underwater photographer, a motivational speaker, a magazine editor, an opera singer, a pantomime dame, a cat-sitter and a ghost-buster.

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      Anxieties of a Bank Cashier - David Brining

      Anxieties of a Bank Cashier

      A short story by David Brining

      Copyright 2012 David Brining

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      NINA Ribakova counted the bank notes again, just to make certain, then secured them with an elastic band. She entered the total sum into the ledger and initialled it NR. She glanced firstly at the closed door of the manager's office and next at the papers, banknotes and identification documents on her desk. Andrey Andreyevich had been with this client for nearly an hour. Usually he would tell her to break up any meeting after twenty minutes with an 'urgent' telephone call, and, as he greeted the customer with a hearty handshake and a slap on the shoulder, he would wink at her conspiratorially. Today, however, as he had ushered the tall, golden-haired media mogul through to his office, he had looked hard at Nina and said

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