Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen
Warm Koskenkorva vodka scours the inside of his mouth, sets his throat ablaze.

Dark Eyes by Nina Romano
Leningrad Monday, December 17, 1956
I awoke from my dream of snow falling softly, amassing next to the twisted dead body of a woman wearing a red and green floral babushka partially covering her face, a pasty white, more ashen than the snow.

After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I by Leigh Straw
On a cold winter’s evening in July 1929, Muriel Pope walked home from the local cinema with her friend Arthur Reed.

Love in the Time of Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Angus Lordie, portrait painter, citizen of Edinburgh, husband of Domenica Macdonald and owner of Cyril, the only dog in Scotland to have a gold tooth; that Angus Lordie stood in a room in his flat at 44 Scotland Street, wondering what to wear.