Two shirts are missing from the laundry of the cooperative.
MONASTYRISCHCHE: WRITTEN JOURNAL, OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY
A truck carrying food supplies crashed into the bridge near here. The driver was severely injured and unable to give details.
Looters seem to have pilfered the wreck. The driver's weapons are missing and two cases of emergency rations have been taken. A house-to-house search will probably be called for tonight. People ought to have the common decency to report accidents instead of creeping around for loot and food, just as though they were hyenas.
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Dugan came to an impassable river and crossed it on live wires, after he had stolen a tire. Only one person saw him, the nameless one, the predator; and she thought herself mad.
YAKOVLEVKA: WORDS FROM THE GARAGE FOREMAN
A tire has been stolen from one of our trucks. Notify the police and have a check made at the highway control points. This time they didn't even leave their old wornout tire. They just took the new one.
TWO KILOMETERS SOUTHEAST OF YAKOVLEVKA: HUSBAND AND WIFE TALKING
"Maksim, wake up and talk to me—"