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Wouter van Noort is 64% done with The Strange

"Father once told me about fireflies on Earth. How they look like floating stars." I said. "I think I would like to see fireflies, Miss Crisp. Perhaps one day we'll all be able to go back."
My Kitchen Engine wants to see fireflies.

— Oct 09, 2024 11:04AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 56% done with The Strange

Mars is ghost country. I know this better now than I did then, of course, but on that journey I began to get my first true sense of it.

— Oct 09, 2024 09:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 49% done with The Strange

I glanced up at Watson once more. He had not moved from his position. His eyes glowed brightly as he continued to watch the miraculous creature's glittering configurations in the night. Not for the first time, and not for the last, I wondered what secret thoughts warmed the copper coils inside his head.

— Oct 09, 2024 01:32AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 43% done with The Strange

I descended the ladder into darkness, and the widow closed it over my head. I heard the sound of the rug and the cot being dragged back into place. I was entombed.

— Oct 08, 2024 03:15PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with The Strange

Of course, we attracted attention: a girl, the pilot who wouldn't fly, and a Kitchen Engine.

— Oct 08, 2024 12:30PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 27% done with The Strange

I knew all the reasons Joe Reilly gave for not going home. I knew the reasons the governor gave. But I also knew the real reason.
Fear.

— Oct 08, 2024 08:10AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 18% done with The Strange

It looked like a beautiful puzzle, and it amazed and infuriated me that the minds that had assembled and guided such a magnificent machine could not solve the simple riddle of the Silence. What happened to Earth? Where did everybody go?

— Oct 08, 2024 03:08AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 11% done with The Strange

I was thirteen when the Silence came to Mars....
Settling over us like a smothering dust.

— Oct 07, 2024 04:16PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 87% done with Wij waren, ik ben. Weg uit Ruinerwold

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Wouter van Noort is 68% done with Wij waren, ik ben. Weg uit Ruinerwold

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Wouter van Noort is 54% done with Wij waren, ik ben. Weg uit Ruinerwold

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Wouter van Noort is 41% done with Wij waren, ik ben. Weg uit Ruinerwold

— Oct 06, 2024 09:49AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 23% done with Wij waren, ik ben. Weg uit Ruinerwold

— Oct 06, 2024 07:33AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 8% done with Wij waren, ik ben. Weg uit Ruinerwold

— Oct 06, 2024 05:20AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 87% done with Gothic

"We need to stop it," she says, interrupting his thoughts. Her eyes are hard, determined. "We need to stop him."

— Oct 05, 2024 09:39AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 75% done with Gothic

Meanwhile, the voices continue to whisper, frantically telling Tyson everything he needs to know, everything he wants to hear, and he can't be more thrilled. And oh, by God! It's fascinating stuff.. They're telling him a new story.

— Oct 05, 2024 05:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 68% done with Gothic

Oh, to be a ghost! he thinks wildly. Wouldn't that be something? To be done with all this pressure? This world? Money and relationships and old age and deadlines and criticism... all GONE. Washed away by the rain, into the gutters. I'd be FREE.

— Oct 05, 2024 02:56AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 61% done with Gothic

And now, after a breakneck few days and the creative explosion, he is very tired, very happy, and very, very sorry.
But the book is done

— Oct 04, 2024 02:12PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with Gothic

They're coming to take me away Ha-Ha, they're coming to take me away, Ho-Ho, Hee-Hee, Ha-Ha, to the FUNNY FARM...

— Oct 04, 2024 07:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 43% done with Gothic

What he does care about, what is absolutely PISSING HIM OFF, is that the injury has stopped him from working. From writing. And oh, how glorious the writing has been! How inspiring! What an incredible relief it is to feel the words FLOWING through him once again.

— Oct 04, 2024 12:58AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 36% done with Gothic

Only a masterful artist could make something so dead seem so alive.

— Oct 03, 2024 03:43PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with Gothic

Billy raises his water glass, and Tyson does the same, "Enough of this weeping and bullshit. To my best friend on his birthday." "And to new muses, may they fuck our rotting corpses dry," Tyson says, too loudly, but happily, and the men laugh as they click glasses "Hear, hear!" Billy replies.

— Oct 03, 2024 09:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Gothic

Later, when a second forklift once more raises the crate neither Sarah, nor the workers, nor Anton himself notice that there isn't a single drop of blood on the concrete beneath the object. As if it had been magically wiped away.
Or absorbed.

— Oct 02, 2024 03:09PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with Gothic

The blue eyes in the reflection stare back at him boldly, feverishly. DARING him. MOCKING him.
OK,fine. So coffee, then shit, then... what? Then you go write that book, you filthy cunt. Or I'll cut out your heart.

— Oct 02, 2024 12:10PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with Gothic

I'm coming for you, she thinks,Time to bring you back where you belong. She closes the laptop and sits back in the chair, her dark eyes staring at the clear, moonlit night which fills the room's bay window. God have mercy on whoever gets in my way.

— Oct 02, 2024 08:41AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 86% done with Always the Almost

"I'm sorry I want a girlfriend," He says.
I snort. "Yeah, woe is you, straight boy."

— Oct 01, 2024 04:16PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 68% done with Always the Almost

"Eric" - I can't stop myself "no offense, but you don't seem that gay." He laughs. "No offense, but neither do you."
"Oh." (Really? I haven't thought about it.)

— Oct 01, 2024 11:47AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with Always the Almost

It's a few seconds before I can manage a whisper. "I'm still your boyfriend?" "I see you as everything you tell me you are or want to be." He smiles, a little shy, a little self-conscious. "You're my boyfriend who currently has, um..." He's looking again. "Boobs," I say.

— Oct 01, 2024 02:54AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 51% done with Always the Almost

"Hi!" she shrieks, throwing her arms around me. "How are you? I missed you! You abandoned the Girl Club!"

— Sep 30, 2024 03:29PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 42% done with Always the Almost

"Rachel! I don't have a guy's body!" I shout. "You do have a guy's body." I've never heard her sound this serious. "It's a guy's body that happens to have boobs. But you're a guy. What's under your binder or in your pants doesn't change that." I feel ashamed that she has to tell me that. Even more ashamed that it helps.

— Sep 30, 2024 10:53AM Add a comment

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