Inktober. A Month of Change

Varya is a ninth-grade math student who dreams of becoming an artist. She is a gray mouse, barely noticed by her classmates or her own parents.
Gosha is a former student. In his first year at university, he managed to fail... his studies, have a falling out with his brother, and get involved in a dubious business.
Varya and Gosha do not know each other. It seems they live in different universes and only watch each other from a distance.
Without agreeing, the young man and woman decide to participate in Inktober — a challenge for artists where every day throughout October you need to draw associations based on a list of words published by the organizers. Just black ink, a white sheet of paper, and your imagination. But for Varya and Gosha, Inktober is a challenge to themselves.
Will Varya be able to believe in her abilities and prove to everyone that the desire to become an artist is not a fleeting whim? Will Gosha withstand a month in isolation with himself? And who of them will manage to start the new month — November — with a clean slate?
Elena Boroda — a writer, philologist, literary critic, laureate of the International V.P. Krapivin Prize, finalist of the 'Kniguru' award — not for the first time addresses the exploration of the inner world of teenagers. Her novella 'Zoom. A Quarantine Story', released in 2022 by 'KompasGid', resonated with both contemporary teenagers and specialists in children's reading.