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Wouter van Noort is 71% done with The Wedding People

I truly wish I was a person who liked to surf, but unfortunately, I have woken up to remember that I am just not that person.

— 9 hours, 27 min ago Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with The Wedding People

Phoebe holds up her glass. "A toast to the bride," Phoebe says, and Lila smiles. "Now let's go see the Sex Woman."

— 23 hours, 38 min ago Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 58% done with The Wedding People

The wedding people sprawl out of the parlor and assemble on the patio. They are still partying. The wedding people are always partying. It feels like what they are sent here by God to do.

— Jan 16, 2026 03:40AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with The Wedding People

How does one enjoy an evening? She charges her phone. She puts on the fluffy robe. She fills the Victorian tub. She lets out her hair.

— Jan 15, 2026 04:23PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 46% done with The Wedding People

Finally in her room, Phoebe feels disappointed to return to the facts of her own life, to the night she will spend in the Roaring Twenties all alone. Not to mention, the life she will spend alone.

— Jan 15, 2026 10:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with The Wedding People

Phoebe closes her eyes. She doesn't want to move.
Like when Harry was on her lap and he was so cute, Phoebe wouldn't even take a sip of coffee. Phoebe doesn't want to ruin the moment.

— Jan 15, 2026 07:54AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with The Wedding People

The bride is right. Phoebe has been to enough weddings to know that the bride is always right. Phoebe has to do a thing.

— Jan 14, 2026 04:18PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 23% done with The Wedding People

After the bride leaves, Phoebe feels surprisingly lonely in the big room. That's when the darkness returns. That's when she is returned to herself, and she hates always having to return to herself.

— Jan 14, 2026 11:55AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 18% done with The Wedding People

She sits on the canopy bed and tries to relax, but being relaxed about her death is proving to be difficult, even on this king-sized pillow-top.

— Jan 14, 2026 08:04AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 12% done with The Wedding People

This is Phoebe's happy place. The place Phoebe has chosen out of all the possible places. How dare the bride make Phoebe feel like she's not supposed to be here.

— Jan 14, 2026 02:23AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with The Wedding People

The hotel looks exactly as Phoebe hoped. It sits on the edge of the cliff like an old and stately dog, patiently waiting for her arrival.

— Jan 13, 2026 02:48PM 1 comment

Wouter van Noort is 92% done with Circe

"My son," I said, "it is yours to decide." Joy broke from him like a wave. I turned away so I would not have to see it. Athena would be glad, I thought. Here was her vengeance at last.

— Jan 13, 2026 01:17AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 87% done with Circe

"Athena." I said. "Who else?" She smiled, bitter and cold.
Athena, that restless goddess whose schemes spun on and on.

— Jan 12, 2026 03:51PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 81% done with Circe

A true-made bow, Odysseus had called her.
A fixed star. A woman who knew herself.

— Jan 12, 2026 07:37AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 76% done with Circe

I was about to break my exile, I knew it. If I succeeded, I would return by morning, before my absence was noticed. And if I did not, well. I would likely be past punishments.

— Jan 12, 2026 03:41AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 70% done with Circe

When he was a child I used to make lists of all the things I would do to keep him safe. It was not much of a game, because the answer was always the same. Anything.

— Jan 11, 2026 02:48PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with Circe

I cupped my own hands in the dark. I did not have a thousand wiles, and I was no fixed star, yet for the first time I felt something in that space. A hope, a living breath, that might yet grow between.

— Jan 11, 2026 06:51AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 58% done with Circe

My dittany, my lilies from Crete, they thrived after all. See? I said to my sister. It was Daedalus who answered. A golden cage is still a cage.

— Jan 10, 2026 01:53PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with Circe

We went the long way back to Aiaia, avoiding Scylla.
Eleven days it took. The sky bent its arc over us, clear and bright.

— Jan 10, 2026 02:17AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 47% done with Circe

"How do you bear it?" he said. My eyes gave off a faint light, and by it I could see his face. It was a surprise to realize that he was waiting for an answer. "We bear it as best we can." I said.

— Jan 09, 2026 01:26PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with Circe

If you had asked me, I would have said I was happy. Yet always I remembered. Cold smoke, marked with my name.

— Jan 09, 2026 02:53AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with Circe

My skin was glowing, my teeth set. Does no one have the courage? Will no one dare to face me? So you see, in my way, I was eager for what came.

— Jan 08, 2026 02:46PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 22% done with Circe

It was not a word I knew. It was not a word anyone knew, then. "Pharmakis," I said. Witch

— Jan 07, 2026 02:53PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 16% done with Circe

My thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.

— Jan 07, 2026 08:22AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 11% done with Circe

An aunt stayed on and named me Hawk, Circe, for my yellow eyes, and the strange, thin sound of my crying.

— Jan 07, 2026 02:07AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with Circe

When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.
They called me nymph, assuming I would be like my mother and aunts and thousand cousins. Least of the lesser goddesses, our powers were so modest they could scarcely ensure our eternities.

— Jan 06, 2026 08:12AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 92% done with The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

Patrick had never in his life felt more foolish. So convinced was he that Emory would lose interest with the years, it had never occurred to him that his love for Patrick might grow.

— Jan 05, 2026 11:11AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 86% done with The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

A knock on the door. It wasn't room service standing in front of him with an unwanted pitcher of juice nor was it his niece or nephew, but rather someone else, someone who took his breath away. "It's you."

— Jan 05, 2026 07:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 78% done with The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

Eventually Greg spoke. "We did a good job with them, didn't we?"
Patrick tried not to laugh as he set his glass on the table.
"Oh, now it's we?"

— Jan 05, 2026 02:26AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 71% done with The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

As soon as he entered the lobby, Grant leaped out from behind the circular banquette and Patrick screamed in a pitch he was not proud of and dropped two of the bags he was holding.

— Jan 04, 2026 11:26AM Add a comment

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