The Final Fragment

“Believe in yourself!”, “Follow your heart!”, “Trust your gut!”. The modern world always preaches about self-discovery, self-realization and self- anything, really. But nobody explains how to find that fickle and unreachable 'self' everyone seems to treat like the ultimate answer to the greatest puzzle called life. Is it a journey you need, as they say, to take on yourself?

These musings torment Nina, a melancholic student at the Olha Kobylianska Arts Academy.

Answers run away from her, hiding behind all sorts of mundane troubles: how to hide a crush on that one perfect girl she shares a dorm room with, deal with an eccentric ex-friend and choose a major for her next year at college? And, most importantly, what does her submission for the upcoming academy’s art exhibition desperately lack?

But a mysterious incident at the exhibiton tears apart Nina’s safe and uneventful life, forcing her to confront everything she's been running away from…

Length: ~20k words, approximately 2 hours of reading

• Experience a cozy coming-of-age tale filled with emotion and mystery
• Dive into the painterly atmosphere of the arts academy drawn by Valentyna Olefirenko
• Listen to your inner voice and choose what feels right
• Find the last missing piece of Nina’s scattered sense of self