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The Author:
Hide N Seek was written by, Fyodor Sologub and first published in 1949. It was translated by Thomas Seltzer (1875-1943). The story includes, a young mother who was completely enraptured by her beloved, young, precocious daughter.

"was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose." Fyodor has many short stories including:


 * Light and Shadows
 * Beauty
 * In the Crowd
 * The Search


 * The Invoker of the Beast
 * The Glimmer of Hunger
 * The White Dog
 * Hide and Seek
 * The White Mother
 * The Cave
 * The Old House
 * The Uniter of Souls
 * The Smile
 * The Hoop

Summary
Hide N Seek, is a short story about a little girl named Lelechka, her mother Serafima Aleksandrovna, and how much Lelechka meant to her mom being her only child. During the time and age Serafima was forced into marriage with her husband, who would be the father to their beautiful Lelechka. With not even the slightest interest in their child, Serafima started to purposely drift from her husband and focus all her love and attention to this baby girl that stole her heart. A tradition the little Lelechka and her mother had shared, was to play Hide N Seek together, leaving them both in a happy joyful mood. As they would come to a finish and have the biggest smiles on one another's face, her husband would enter and instantly give the mother and child a cold and calm mood change instantly and they would no longer have their excitement and joy from before. The mother spent most of her time in the nursery, expressing that it's where she felt the happiest, leaving her husband to know exactly where to find her if and when needed. Then one day her mistress had said words involving the death of her precious Lelechka and it absolutely tore the mother apart, not wanting to ever think about her baby passing. A few days had passed and the beloved child had caught a cold with a fever going up over night. This had her mother in absolute awe and so worried for her precious Lelechka. Throughout the story, the family is faced with many difficult challenges and have to handle them in different situations. Thoughts Serafima had feared, had hit her in the face, leaving her to learn how and what ways to get through them. How much did she love and care for little Lelechka, the short story Hide N Seek potrays how you can see an instant change and draw you in through the different settings and actions that take place.