November Update

I am back in Canada after being in Russia for September and October.

Story Update: I had made the decision to pause writing, as every time I approached this, I broke down. Things are better now, but not perfect. I will hopefully resume working on this project after I finish writing my travel journal. My plan is to redo the beginning of the story, with images. I had talked to people in order to edit the story, and realized that the visual details were in the images, and feel very bizarre for me to put in writing. I have also been told there are issues with the Sergei / Jennifer dialogs. I had never intended to get to a professional writing level with my writing from the beginning, but it would be helpful to improve things.

Travel Journals: I was in Russia again, and I still have not finished my documentation from the previous year. I do want to write something up to finish this, as well as talk about what occurred more recently. I doubt the order will be chronological, especially since I have forgotten many of the details from the older trip.

Personal Update: I have been dealing with certain issues since I got back from Russia, which I don't completely understand.
As far as I can tell, this issue is this:
   a) I was in Russia, and it feels more comfortable for me to be in Russia. I it is difficult for me to explain this, not because I don't have words to describe this, but because people feel the need to criticize how I describe this, which triggers the sense of alienation all over again.
   b) When I got back, I basically needed to "debrief" from the trip, put my thoughts together and figure out what I need to do. In order to do this, I needed to talk to people, but I had nobody to talk to who wouldn't instinctively attack me on what I had to say. Yes, that is a simplification, but it is also the truth of the situation.

Update - February 2019

I have split the hospital scene again, and have the second portion completed. It is currently 23 updates, and will hopefully end in December of this year. I still need to wait in order to start publishing, as I need to find a new editor for this. I will try increasing the rate of posting again in order to complete this portion by 2020.

After I finish editing, I will try to work on the rest of the hospital scene and get images for the dream sequence from the first section and the role-playing in the third section. I will also try to get the travel journal done from summer 2018.

Hopefully, I will be able to start illustrating the story after the end of Jennifer's time in the hospital.

С новым годом!

I am sorry I don't have any images for the New Year. I have been slow, although I am still working on both the next part of the story and my travel journals for this summer.

The ebook formats for the first subchapter will become available throughout the day.

Prologue (Russian Latinized with translations) -- epub, mobi, pdf
Prologue (Russian in Cyrillic)                           -- epub, mobi, pdf
Chapter 1, Subchapter 1 (without Cyrillic)       -- epub, mobi, pdf
Chapter 1, Subchapter 1 (with Cyrillic)             -- epub, mobi, pdf