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Wouter van Noort is 29% done with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Her fingers brushed a bulge in the pack's sidewall and a sudden burst of elation-perhaps partially fueled by fresh calories-lit her up.
Her Walkman! She had brought her Walkman! Yeah, baby!

— Nov 01, 2025 03:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 17% done with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

"Help me, I'm lost! Help me, I'm lost!" Now the tears began to come and she could no longer hold them back, could no longer kid herself that she was in charge of this situation.

— Oct 31, 2025 03:51PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 8% done with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old.

— Oct 31, 2025 07:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 92% done with Most Valuable Player

"So," I breathe, pinching his chin between my thumb and index finger. "Will you go out with me, Mason Gr-" He seizes the back of my neck and wrenches me down into a kiss.

— Oct 30, 2025 04:46PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 86% done with Most Valuable Player

"Helping you when youre sick is bare-minimum relationship behavior." I wrap an arm around Mason, hugging him closer before pulling his legs sideways into my lap. "I want to be here. I want to help you get better. Plus, I get to spend time with you, so I'm winning all around."

— Oct 30, 2025 11:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 79% done with Most Valuable Player

I don't know where it came from, this feeling. But somewhere in our time together... I've started to like this water boy.

— Oct 29, 2025 05:08PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 72% done with Most Valuable Player

"Water boy?" I squawk. "Quarterback," he mumbles into my jacket.
My heart swoops into my stomach before skyrocketing into my throat, clearly uncertain of how to handle this.

— Oct 29, 2025 10:08AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with Most Valuable Player

"Ah," Mom says. "This must be my son's failed conquest."
Oh. My. Fucking. God.

— Oct 29, 2025 06:12AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 57% done with Most Valuable Player

Maybe I don't need to ask anything. Maybe I just need to tell him that if he disappeared... I would notice.

— Oct 29, 2025 04:42AM 2 comments

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with Most Valuable Player

Ah... fuck. Fuckedy fuck. I didn't realize he might ask questions. Why the hell did I say that? I'm normally so good about watching whatever past-related words come out of my mouth, so how did I screw myself so thoroughly? My brain didn't even warn me to hesitate before I yapped.

— Oct 28, 2025 04:27PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 41% done with Most Valuable Player

I lean forward and kiss his greasy cheek. His sentence disintegrates. He blinks, eyes widening with perplexity. "I," I say calmly, grabbing his chin, my stern gaze locking with his. "Do. Not. Hate. You."

— Oct 28, 2025 11:57AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with Most Valuable Player

A blueberry muffin and coffee? Seriously? How can such a smart guy be so clueless and neglectful? Someone needs to keep snacks on hand for that little shit before he evaporates. I'm not being sarcastic.

— Oct 28, 2025 09:02AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Most Valuable Player

"You and me," I say, jabbing a confident thumb into my chest. "I'll be the sun to your moon if you'll be the tides to my beach."
Fucking nailed it.

— Oct 28, 2025 03:43AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with Most Valuable Player

Five minutes later, I approach Mason. "Hey, water boy," I say.
Mason spares me a glance. "Yes, quarterback?

— Oct 27, 2025 04:51PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with Most Valuable Player

Mason Gray, your face is mine.
I mean that fondly, of course.

— Oct 27, 2025 10:28AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 91% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

A blink-and-miss-it affair. If that didn't aptly summarize their summer, Patrick didn't know what else could.

— Oct 27, 2025 02:54AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 82% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

Guncle Rule eleventy-five, special brunch edition:
Bottomless mimosas are not the same thing as pantsless mimosas. Very different, in fact. Learned that the hard way.

— Oct 26, 2025 03:07PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 73% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

As the kids emerged from their rooms wearing their helmets for the fifth morning in a row, all Patrick could manage was "Why?"

— Oct 26, 2025 03:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

Guncle Rule number eleven: Make the yuletide gay.

— Oct 25, 2025 11:44AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 57% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

It's nice, the stars. They make me feel unimportant. In a good way. Like my problems don't matter. They're not problems. I'm not anything. Just insignificant bits of star dust.

— Oct 25, 2025 01:31AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

What do we say in this house? Boys can do girl things and girls can do boy things. That's not even a Guncle Rule, there shouldn't even be boy things and girl things to begin with. People should just do what they want.

— Oct 24, 2025 08:52AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 41% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

"I'm not gay professionally, Cassie. I maintain my amateur status to compete in the Gay Olympics."

— Oct 24, 2025 02:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

It was already more fruitful than Duolingo; last year he was learning Italian until it started teaching him useless words like pinguino. When was he ever going to need to say penguin in Italy? "Buonasera. I'll have the braised pinguino, per favore. Grazie." No.

— Oct 23, 2025 04:17PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 23% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

Guncle Rule number five: If a gay man hands you his phone, look only at what he's showing you. If it's a photo, don't swipe. And for god's sake, don't open any unfamiliar apps.

— Oct 23, 2025 11:56AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

"Why don't you talk like everyone else?" Maisie leaned forward and put her lips on her apple juice without lifting the glass from the table. "'Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.' Oscar Wilde." Patrick snickered.

— Oct 23, 2025 07:21AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

She asked if I was going to tell her my biggest secret, or if I was going to wait and do the whole Gay-by-May thing.

— Oct 23, 2025 02:21AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 84% done with All Boys Aren’t Blue

Being queer is a journey. One that is ever changing as identities that were once in the dark come to light. As relationships that once needed to be hidden come to a place of greater visibility.

— Oct 22, 2025 11:26AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 67% done with All Boys Aren’t Blue

The greatest tool you have in fighting the oppression of your Blackness and queerness and anything else within your identity is to be fully educated on it. Knowledge is truly your sharpest weapon in a world hell-bent on telling you stories that are simply not true.

— Oct 22, 2025 07:41AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with All Boys Aren’t Blue

When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say,
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."
If I wasn't gonna fight for me, who else was?

— Oct 22, 2025 02:56AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 43% done with All Boys Aren’t Blue

The moments that I wanted to cry would be covered up with laughter. A fake closed-lip smile would be used to hide the pain I was feeling from my inability to be me. That was the first day I began wearing the mask. The mask that would cover my face, so no one could see who I really was.

— Oct 21, 2025 04:17PM Add a comment

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