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Wouter van Noort is 47% done with The Reformatory

Life-or-death. Robert glanced in every direction.

— Apr 15, 2025 07:38AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 41% done with The Reformatory

See this tree? When I was a boy, this was a hanging tree. We had to walk past it to go to school even if a man was still swinging.

— Apr 14, 2025 11:28AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 36% done with The Reformatory

He was alive.
There is more than this.
He would learn,
There is more than this.
Like Papa, he would find a way to be free.

— Apr 14, 2025 02:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with The Reformatory

"I'm sorry..." Robert whispered. "But you're dead. I can't help you. Go away." He closed his eyes tight and counted to ten. One...two...three... His heartbeat rocked him as he counted, as if a part of him knew the shadow would be staring him face-to-face when he opened his eyes. Eight...nine...TEN. He held his breath. And peeked.

— Apr 13, 2025 11:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 23% done with The Reformatory

"If there's any such thing as evil on this earth, Gloria, it's here in Gracetown. In the soil, hear? Gracetown soil remembers.
It's like a mirror that shines yo ugly back at you."

— Apr 12, 2025 01:29PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 20% done with The Reformatory

The fire is gone, he told himself. Those boys aren't real.
But they had been real, once upon time.

— Apr 11, 2025 11:40AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with The Reformatory

Then came the worst: the screams. Mama had whimpered and screamed in her sickness, but Robert had never heard human screams so wretched they were like animals. The sound was solid enough to touch, all around him. Boys. A room of screaming boys. Burning in a fire.

— Apr 11, 2025 02:53AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 9% done with The Reformatory

A clanging across his window startled Robert and made his sore ear throb. The deputy had tapped the glass with his handcuffs. "You won't be smilin' long, boy," the deputy said.

— Apr 10, 2025 11:17AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 4% done with The Reformatory

Mister Red is gonna kill me, Robert thought, the most certain thought he'd ever had.

— Apr 10, 2025 09:14AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 92% done with The Rival

"You sound surprised," says Seb. "But in my experience, if there's something Sadie Brighton wants, she finds a way to get it." I take a small step back to look Seb up and down. "Lucky you," I say cheekily.

— Apr 09, 2025 03:47PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 84% done with The Rival

"Hey!" I call out, indignant. A mistake on my part, because then the situation reaches peak ridiculous. Seb turns and sees me coming toward him, digs his heel into the cement, and runs.
"Abso-fucking-lutely not!" I mutter to myself.

— Apr 09, 2025 11:23AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 79% done with The Rival

"Is that a threat?" I ask. "A promise," says Seb, who doesn't let go of my hand when he moves off the bench, using the momentum to pull me up in turn. "Like you said. For better or worse, We're stuck with each other."

— Apr 09, 2025 08:21AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 74% done with The Rival

"I'm just... upset in general. Because I think..." I squeeze my eyes shut for a moment. "I think I really like him." When I open my eyes, Christina has a hand on her chest. "I, for one, am shocked."

— Apr 09, 2025 02:54AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 68% done with The Rival

He speaks for us both when he says, "But."
"But," I acknowledge. "I will die if I don't have that pancake."
Seb nods grimly in agreement. "Here lies Seb and Sadie. They died as they lived: too lazy to cook their own damn pancakes."

— Apr 08, 2025 03:25PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with The Rival

Keep your friends close and your lifelong academic rivals you've imagined kissing multiple times against your will closer. It's all just a part of our years long game.

— Apr 08, 2025 11:00AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 53% done with The Rival

I have to admit, a few days ago when Christina woke up in the middle of a micronap, sat up, and used the words "Sexy" and "Shrek" in an otherwise incoherent sentence before conking out again, I had my doubts.

— Apr 08, 2025 07:29AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 47% done with The Rival

I still feel uneasy. A feeling I can't find the root of until it's time to set my alarm to go to sleep, and I realize Seb never texted me back. No, that's not the realization, it's that I wanted him to, and my disappointment is just one more thing about Seb I can't fully explain.

— Apr 08, 2025 02:08AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 42% done with The Rival

"So I'Il see you then?" Seb calls after me.
"Surely, stupendously, and sincerely!" I call back.

— Apr 07, 2025 11:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 36% done with The Rival

I'm fuzzy on the details of what Pavlov fed the dog in that experiment, but I sure do feel a kinship with him when I wake up on Sunday morning and my brain immediately goes, Pancakes.

— Apr 07, 2025 09:16AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 28% done with The Rival

Just take care of that one typo and you're good to go. Seb's little dots pop on the screen and then disappear and then pop up again. I sit back against the row of dryers, grinning into my phone. You monster, Seb types back when he realizes there's no typo to be found.

— Apr 07, 2025 02:37AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 22% done with The Rival

Seb shakes his head. "I think we're just both - maybe - a smidge competitive." he says. "Smidge and a half," I agree.

— Apr 06, 2025 02:39PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 16% done with The Rival

Seb's eyes meet mine, crackling and electric. It's oddly like breaking the fourth wall of a scripted Seb and Sadie Sitcom we've kept going for god knows how long.

— Apr 06, 2025 02:13AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 12% done with The Rival

"Just trying to decide if it's worth it for me to keep paying for all these streaming services when I'm about to have the world's most ridiculous 'will they, won't they, dear god, just kiss already' show playing out right in front of my eyes."

— Apr 05, 2025 02:55PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with The Rival

I glance up into the wide, apologetic brown eyes directly in front of mine and realize this is not just any boy. This is the aforementioned archnemesis, looking distinctly unvanquished in the late August sun.

— Apr 04, 2025 08:04AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 93% done with Revival

Pastor Danny, heal thyself, I thought, and not for the first time.

— Apr 02, 2025 03:13PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 87% done with Revival

I was curious. God help me, I wanted to watch him lift the lid on Pandora's box and peer inside.

— Apr 02, 2025 11:19AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 82% done with Revival

They found him in his room, dangling from a noose he'd made from a pair of bluejeans. He left a note that said,
I can't stop seeing the damned. The line stretches forever.

— Apr 02, 2025 02:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 76% done with Revival

"Hello, Jamie," he said.
"You bastard," I said. "You fucking bastard."

— Apr 01, 2025 11:07AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 70% done with Revival

I started back toward the front door. I was crossing the rotunda, my heels clacking on the marble, when he called after me, his voice amplified by all that open space, "We're not done, Jamie. I promise you that. Not even close to done."

— Apr 01, 2025 01:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with Revival

You know why I came, I thought. Then I had an even more uncomfortable thought: You've been waiting for me.

— Mar 31, 2025 11:10AM Add a comment

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