“Mademoiselle From September”, 2016, Yuriy Ku Drop

September 24, 2016

Tonight I thought I’ve finally finished that painting. Though I could not still name it. It worried me.
She was standing against the wall gazing at me as if she wished me to find something I knew but had forgotten.

An hour later, after he was idly looking through his old notes he unexpectedly found what only seemed to be an answer. It was a letter from a story he used to reread, rarely. Because he didn’t know whether he liked it a lot or he did not at all.

The hint was there, not in whole story but just in one paragraph. And she was there, saying now to him…123 years ago… –

September 25, 1893

“Today, we speak very quietly, almost inaudibly – so far we are from each other, indeed I exist only in you, and…