Evil Girl

«Anger gnaws at me constantly, without break. No, it doesn’t just gnaw, it devours me» — this is what Sveta Artemyeva, the heroine of Viktor Lanovenko's novella «Evil Girl», feels. And one can understand her: her parents' business collapsed, her father was imprisoned on false charges, her mother, unable to cope with it, increasingly sought solace at the bottom of a bottle, and Sveta found herself suddenly out of place in an elite high school. How to find new bearings in life, discarding all the pretense, the falsehood? How to help mom? Can revenge become the center of life? The author, as if under a magnifying glass, explores the heroine's feelings, their emergence, development, and transformation. And ultimately concludes: negative, soul-burning feelings cannot become viable. This place must be occupied only by love. For middle and high school age.