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Hasmik Hovhannisyan

30 stories, April 2019 – February 2023

Photos: 4 stories

First lines

  1. Nata takes powerful anticonvulsants.

    Don’t let God down

    War23 min

  1. — A real, professional one! Can I take some pictures?

    On Either Side of the Road

    War17 min

  2. We pass a checkpoint outside a village that suddenly found itself on the border in September.

    The General Said No

    Life17 min

  3. I tell Kima that I have been dreaming of meeting her for two years now — ever since the day I first saw her piercing eyes.

    His Soul Lives Here

    Life20 min

  4. Sammy, just two years ago, was the most difficult dog at the Centaur shelter.

    A Dog Owner Is Always a Bit of a Bastard

    Animals44 minWe talked · 37 questions

  5. Meri sets her alarm for five in the morning. Every 10 minutes, the alarm reminds her that she needs to get up.

    A Kidney for an Apartment

    Low-income people22 min

  6. They met by chance, through social media. He said he had fallen in love with her kindness, while she… had not fallen in love, no — not then, not later.

    How About I Beat You Up

    Violence42 min

  7. The dog has blue eyes. One eye bulges — it looks as though it is about to burst, while the other has already burst, as though it has drained out of its socket.

    A Playlist for a Blind Dog

    Animals33 min

  1. Johnny the French bulldog starts racing up and down the corridor, grunting happily.

    Indecently Alive

    Oncology31 min

  2. In the tidy room with its freshly painted white walls, little reminder notes lie everywhere.

    Roses Love Chopin

    Violence52 min

  3. Hrant was a failing student and a troublemaker. In class he would look out of the window at the cumulus clouds, which took on all sorts of shapes in his imagination.

    The Photograph

    Children19 min

  4. — When the woman said her child had not seen the sun for fifteen years, everything inside me fell to pieces.

    Change the Point of Support

    Children34 minWe talked · 22 questions

  1. — Hello. No, this is Vahagn. I feel all right. I lost an eye and had part of my skull removed.

    A Machine Gun Against a Grasshopper

    War18 minWe talked · 22 questions

  2. Two years ago on this day, he came up to me and invited me to his planet.

    When I Died

    War18 min

  3. Out of a thick veil of fog, an old shepherd with a white mare and a brown foal floats onto the deserted night road.

    Tomorrow After the End

    War33 min

  4. The name “Sloyan” became known throughout Armenia after the 2016 Artsakh war.

    The House Where Heroes Are Born

    War13 min

  5. Armen Akhmeyan is 21. He lives in the village of Yeraskhahun in Armavir.

    So Dreams May Live

    War14 min

  6. — My name is Melanya. I am 25. I have two children: Aren is 4, Lena is 2.

    Dad Works for the Spider

    War9 min

  7. “If we are against the fact that a criminal should receive education and proper rehabilitation at the expense of the society, then he will just stay in jail at our expense, and sometimes stay repeatedly.

    Even punishment should include care for a person

    Prison50 minWe talked · 52 questions

  8. From his earliest years, he refused to fight in dogfights.

    Not Today

    Animals43 min

  9. “Don’t wrench out the tongue, don’t break the jaw.”

    Not a Life Sentence

    Children46 minWe talked · 28 questions

  10. Somewhere out there walks a person who changed the world with a single breakfast.

    Cogs in the Same Machine

    Life59 min

  11. Arev longs for a miracle to happen one day, for her little girl to start walking and smiling.

    In Her Arms

    Children30 min

  1. Ada remembers herself from the age of four. She lived in a small, cosy flat with her mum, dad, little brother and beloved French bulldog Charlie.

    Such Love

    Violence25 min

  2. The diary of a therapy dog that was written randomly in bits and pieces, being constantly interrupted by the cat climbed the dog to sleep on its back, by passers-by who had to be barked upon from the window, by…

    Doctor with a tail

    Animals47 min

  3. Notes from a dog everyone said should be put to sleep.

    The Seven Lives of Ktsan

    Animals37 min

  4. What is better for children — an orphanage or a mother attached to them, whose ineptitude to be a parent, however, can lead to sad consequences?

    Untouchable

    Low-income people32 min

  5. I live in imaginary worlds from books. All characters are either knights or villains.

    Why me

    Violence22 min

  6. Bim was killed with rat poison. His murder stays unpunished, as well as hundreds of others in Armenia, where killing a dog is considered to be a mere damage to property.

    When blood doesn’t clot

    Animals24 min

  7. “With one hand he was tightly squeezing my arm, with another he was dragging my bicycle.

    Guilty dreadlocks

    Violence23 min