#novella

I am the Captain of my own life. ↗

— Lexis De Rothschild

#fiction #humor #novella #offbeat #page-turner

.. that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty

I had this guy’s file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado.” Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction. “Did you say Desperado?” I couldn’t stop the snort of laughter that bubbled to the surface. “Yeah,” the Director confirmed. “He changed his name when he turned eighteen. It was Melvin.” I was still laughing. “’Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fantasy #fiction #humor #joseph-carter #keepers

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it." Goethe ↗

— Paul Alan Fahey

#fiction #gay #novellas #dreams

He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his chest. Broken, I feared even the slightest movement would cause pieces of me to snap off and fall to the gritty pavement. ↗

— Jodi LaPalm

#novella #romance #still-life #life

It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. It’s the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. We’ve come too far, waited too long to turn back now. Only death awaits us here. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#qeya #sci-fi #ya-novella #death

Life, like love, holds many secrets for us to discover. Some we unearth early on. Others take us most of our days to stumble upon, even though they are hidden in plain sight. ↗

— Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#life