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The French Boss's Phrasebook

Fictional stories with real love for Pai. Plots and dialogue invented to make you smile.

AI story illustration. A black bulldog beside an imaginary phrasebook with wishes shown as pictures. Not a family photograph.
AI story illustration. Not a photograph of Pai, his family or their home.

Pai has his own phrasebook. It doesn't take up shelf space, but it regularly takes up the whole family's attention.

Chin on knee translates as “you have a free hand.” Stick at your feet means “I've brought the meeting agenda.” A long look at the sofa means “let's not complicate the obvious.” And sudden silence in the next room calls for a personal visit, because the boss is either resting or getting creative.

Dilyara and Mikhail have understood this language without subtitles for years. Sometimes they deliberately ask him to repeat himself, just to see that funny face again. Pai is patient with his students. The important thing is that he gets a stroke by the end of the lesson.

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