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Essays

May 01, 2026

September 9 and Bulgarian Innocence

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or How the Actors Change, but the Rules of the Game Do Not Innocence as a National Technology Bulgarian history is rarely told as something we ourselves have done. It almost always arrives from outside—as invasion, betrayal, conspiracy, a foreign will imposed upon an otherwise…

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Confessions

May 25, 2025

Two Deaths and a Homeland

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My father, my most beloved Bulgarian, died a long time ago, on his feet. In this way he gave his sons a final – and perhaps most important – example, but that is not what I want to talk about. My old man, Mitko Enev, died trying to reach the top of the stairs, where an ambulance…

Short Stories

May 25, 2025

The Kiss

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I am the happiest man in the world. I know I’m talking nonsense – but I don’t care, not as long as my Eva is beside me. I’ve got the most wonderful woman, earned her with sweat and hardship, so don’t tell me to knock on wood. When a man has been through stories like mine, he…

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June 06, 2025

The Children of Hans Asperger – Excerpt

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The Children of Hans Asperger Life with Autism: A personal Story Today I begin a story which I probably regard – quite justifiably – as the hardest and most painful in my life so far: the story of the birth and upbringing of our two children, Paul and Lea Enev. I spoke with all…