Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1)

by Ashley Poston

She reaches out to take the jacket. I hesitate for a moment, like Frodo with his Ring, but then I remember how much crap Frodo walked into and I’d rather not end up like Frodo. So I give it to Sage.

She wears life like Elvis wore sequins, with no apology laced into the seams.

I probably won’t but—but my dad said that the impossible is only impossible if you don’t even try. So I want to try.”

C’mon Bilbo, where’s your sense of adventure?”

We might all be different—we may ship different things or be in different fandoms—but if I learned anything from twenty-three days in a too-blue uniform playing a character I thought I could never be, it’s that when we become those characters, pieces of ourselves light up like glow sticks in the night. They shine. We shine. Together. And even when some of us fall to different universes, those lights never go out.

That is why this universe is impossible: because all the good things are impossible to keep. The universe always takes them away.

if you believe in yourself and have a few good friends, then you can do anything.

That is never a waste of time. Because in the end we’re all just a bunch of weirdos standing in front of other weirdos, asking for their username. So, as Carmindor always says: Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite.