by Brittany Noelle | Jul 15, 2024 | Penn and Sword, Web Serials
Copyright © 2024 by Brittany Noelle Copyright Statement On the drive back, I stare out the window, watching the streetlights flicker by, fiddling with the edges of the red felt blanket. Over and over, I question the conversation I just had. Where had he come from? How...
by Brittany Noelle | Jul 12, 2024 | Penn and Sword, Web Serials
Copyright © 2024 by Brittany Noelle Copyright Statement The ride to the facility is quick. Simon chatters away about upcoming classes and his part-time job at his father’s hotel downtown. I give occasional one-word responses, hoping he gets the hint I’m...
by Brittany Noelle | Jul 11, 2024 | Penn and Sword, Web Serials
Copyright © 2024 by Brittany Noelle Copyright Statement Once my confusion finally dissolves and I fall into the syrupy world of dreams… the creeping-crawling begins. I cradle my red felt blanket close, inhaling the soft, peachy remnants of my sister’s shampoo....
by Brittany Noelle | Jul 10, 2024 | Penn and Sword, Web Serials
Copyright © 2024 by Brittany Noelle Copyright Statement “What…?” I whisper, brow bunching. Duck? Like the animal? I flip over the letter, but find no other message. “What does that even mean—?” Behind, my bedroom door bursts open, clattering...
by Brittany Noelle | Jul 9, 2024 | Penn and Sword, Web Serials
Copyright © 2024 by Brittany Noelle Copyright Statement I jolt upright, searching for a figure in the shadows. Another creak slices the night-thick air, and another. From above. Simon didn’t tour another floor. But that means… the sounds are coming from the...
by Brittany Noelle | Jul 8, 2024 | Penn and Sword, Web Serials
Copyright © 2024 by Brittany Noelle Copyright Statement Tonight, 2024 I settle a cardboard box on my hip, straighten my green checkered skirt, and hold my chin high as I follow my new roomie inside. The prominent dorm, affectionately dubbed Excalibur, sits just on the...
by Brittany Noelle | Jul 8, 2024 | Penn and Sword, Web Serials
Copyright © 2024 by Brittany Noelle Copyright Statement Five Nights Ago As midnight passes, a weighted hush falls over the student house on the edge of campus. Start of semester nerves keep the freshmen awake for hours of restless shivers and giddy laughter. But as...
by Brittany Noelle | Jul 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hi hello— I wanted to do a quick little update blog post. One of which is that I’m going to do these posts every Monday again. As the series title suggests. June was a month, ha. Anyhoo, onto the plans for July! I’m working on some edits to Penn and Sword...
by Brittany Noelle | May 13, 2024 | Monday Musings
Hi hello— If ever there was a bane of my existence… it’s a deadline. Homework deadlines, project deadlines, work deadlines—I very much loathe them. As a chronic and indulgent procrastinator, any sort of deadline makes my skin crawl and my sense of freedom cringe away...
by Brittany Noelle | Apr 26, 2024 | Monday Musings
Hi hello— Why do we like serialized stories? I think on a fundamental level, our puny lizard brains don’t like open loops. Whenever we have something left undone, unsaid, unlived, it lingers in the mind like a splinter between thoughts. Closure is very...
