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Wouter van Noort is 29% done with Always the Almost

And here, I am not trying to be. I just am. Trans. Queer. He, him, his. The labels I've chosen, and no labels at all. Just a person.

— Sep 30, 2024 07:02AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Always the Almost

I'm going to Valentine's Night. As a boy. With my two lesbian best friends and a guy who has an earring and just told me he likes people. It's about as far from last year's Valentine's Night as you can get.

— Sep 29, 2024 03:37PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 13% done with Always the Almost

The funny thing about going just kidding, actually a boy halfway through high school is that basically everybody finds out, whether or not you tell them, because they all pass you, look at you, stalk you online, or know someone who does one of those things.

— Sep 29, 2024 04:10AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with Always the Almost

I'm ready. So ready that I can almost ignore the look Dad gives me when I go downstairs. "Ready for school?" he says. Translation: I see by what you're wearing that you haven't changed your mind and turned back into the daughter I'm not-so-secretly hoping is still in there. "Yeah," I say.

— Sep 28, 2024 12:21PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 78% done with The Butcher of the Forest

No one said magic and no one said stay out of the woods. It didn't always work.

— Sep 27, 2024 03:44AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 57% done with The Butcher of the Forest

She could almost see it around her: magic not as words and spells but as poison, a faint smoky mist exhaled from the near invisible flowers in the grass, from the tiny white mushrooms in the black dirt below her feet.

— Sep 26, 2024 04:06PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with The Butcher of the Forest

Some of the noises were probably children that had come in here long ago, and perished. Some might be real, but not here. Some might be animals or peo... well, creatures, doing imitations. Unless she caught them in the act she would never know.

— Sep 26, 2024 12:14PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 17% done with The Butcher of the Forest

Still he has this power over us. And it has not waned one whit since the day he came. Why me and why?

— Sep 26, 2024 04:56AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 86% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

"Oh, frack," I moaned.

~ Yeah buddy, frack indeed.

— Sep 25, 2024 11:33AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 69% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

I snatched the square purple Durex wrapper and shoved it in my pocket. "Mom!" I whisper-shouted. "Ohmigawd, ohmigawd, ohmigawd. I have to go right now." Mom wriggled her fingers in the air. "Ta-ta. If you need any more, I put a whole box under your bathroom sink." ~ Do I think it's funny stop at 69%? Definitely.

— Sep 25, 2024 04:07AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

"Looks like I might have gotten you more than your first kiss," Max said. "Okay, yeah. Gay Guide of the Year Award," I said.
"Damn straight. Or... damn gay."

— Sep 24, 2024 04:13PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

The velvet carrot nose on Tony's costume rubbed against the top of my head, over and over and over. But I didn't care. He had a whole other protruding carrot thing going on that drew all my attention with each press of his body against mine. ~Hello?!?!

— Sep 24, 2024 09:03AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 43% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

Queer-Straight Alliance
First Meeting of the Year Tuesday,
September 7, Room 313 @ 2:45

"I found them," I whispered. "I found the gays."

— Sep 24, 2024 02:36AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

This was where I was meant to be. Where I'd finally find my queer community. Where I'd find the person to give me my first kiss, to become my first boyfriend, to cross off item eight with a condom and a flourish! ~Oh! That's how it's going to be isn't it?

— Sep 23, 2024 02:36PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 27% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

I wished the stars were lining up perfectly to bring two gay boys together. Me being one of them, just to be clear.

— Sep 23, 2024 12:18PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 16% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

I'd gone nearly eighteen years in an LGBTQuarantine, despite the stats throwing it in my face that there should be someone else around who identified as queer. But in just a few weeks, I'd be moving to a metropolitan mecca of gays, where I'd be virtually surrounded by people like me.

— Sep 23, 2024 08:03AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 9% done with Jay's Gay Agenda

I made an ongoing list of all the stuff I wanted to do once I finally came into contact with another gay. My Gay Agenda.

— Sep 23, 2024 03:49AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 88% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

My confrontation with Python was just another impossible task in a day of impossible tasks. 'I'll gather some supplies.' Rachel then dashed off. 'Bow and quiver coming up,' Nico said. 'And ukulele,' Will added. Nico winced. 'Do we really hate Python that much?' Will raised an eyebrow. 'Fine.' Nico dashed off.

— Sep 22, 2024 10:08AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 75% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

"Ha-ha!" I initiated a home-plate slide. In my mind, the manoeuvre had seemed so simple: I would glide effortlessly across the floor, avoiding Leader Guy's thrust, veering between his legs as I fired at multiple targets from a supine position. If Orlando Bloom could do it in Lord of the Rings, why couldn't I?

— Sep 22, 2024 05:12AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 68% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

Gods aren't great with deadlines. The concept of having a limited time to do something just doesn't make much sense to an immortal.

— Sep 21, 2024 10:35AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

Nero's cell was the nicest place I'd ever been imprisoned in. I would have rated it five stars. Absolute luxury! Would die here again!

— Sep 21, 2024 02:18AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 51% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

Lined up on Nero's left were the eleven young demigods of the Imperial Household, aka the Evil von Trapp children.

— Sep 20, 2024 02:38PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 45% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

'Hey!' Nico turned from the window, his face pale with shock. 'We have to get out of here now. The cows are attacking!' In no context can the cows are attacking be considered good news.

— Sep 19, 2024 04:25PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

"Excellent," Dionysus said. "Now that you've got your suicidal quest figured out, can we please finish breakfast? And stop hogging the syrup, McCaffrey. Other people have pancakes, too."

— Sep 19, 2024 09:40AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 23% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

Call me superstitious. If you're going to hail a chariot, you should at least try for one that doesn't have damnation right there in the name.

— Sep 19, 2024 02:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 15% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

I wished we could have had regular small talk around the dinner table: the weather, who liked whom at school, which gods were casting plagues on which cities and why. But no, it was always about who was trying to kill me.

— Sep 18, 2024 03:44PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 9% done with The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

Six Germani turned and stared at us, their meaty fists full of Danishes and cups of coffee. Barbarians! Who else would eat breakfast pastries at night?

— Sep 18, 2024 11:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 89% done with The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

If you ever get the chance to see weaponized unicorns in action, don't. It's something you can't un-see.

— Sep 18, 2024 03:50AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 78% done with The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

This was the source of all our communications troubles - one sad, angry, forgotten little god.

— Sep 17, 2024 03:08PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 66% done with The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

In retrospect, I should have given ravens sponges for beaks-nice, soft, squishy sponges that weren't capable of stabbing. While I was at it, I should've thrown in some Nerf claws. But nooo. I let them have beaks like serrated knives and claws like meat hooks. What had I been thinking?

— Sep 17, 2024 02:11AM Add a comment

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