A Gentle Creature

“I apologize to my readers that this time, instead of a ‘Diary’ in its usual form, I’m only providing a novella. But I really was busy with this novella for most of the month.

Now about the story itself. I titled it ‘fantastic,’ though I consider it highly realistic in every sense. But the fantastic element is truly present here—and it is precisely in the very form of the story, which is what I find necessary to explain in advance…”