Novel Allen
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.
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The Jilted Bride!. Runner-Up in The Forgotten Room Challenge. Top Story - December 2025.
🕊️ The Courtship of Morylda Morylda met him - Chalen - in the greenhouse of her aunt’s estate, where she’d gone to escape the suffocating expectations of her lineage. He was not a gardener, though he wore the green apron like one. He was a composer, moonlighting among orchids to pay for studio time. His hands smelled of soil and sandalwood, and when he spoke, his voice had the cadence of an unsung lullaby.
By Novel Allen3 months ago in Fiction
The Second Book of Genesis.
The Gospel of the Forsaken, by human standard - may be viewed as blasphemy. There is a Book of which no one speaks. The Bad Book twin to The Good Book. It remains secreted away...Locked in an enchanted, guilefully guarded prison-like room from the beginning of time.
By Novel Allen3 months ago in Fiction
The Philosophical Room
Not so long ago, mankind made tremendous technological advances from steam to electricity. Many assumed that these inventions would automatically bring people closer, making society better. Instead, Bergson warned, without a matching effort toward moral and spiritual growth...technology would deepen divisions rather than bridge them.
By Novel Allen3 months ago in Fiction
Caribbean Winter Mirages🎄
Rituals are not always adorned in pretty gift wrapped bundles and placed surreptitiously under a well decorated tree. Those images are but mirages to those who exist far away from wonderous snow laden trees and icy visions of rolling hills.
By Novel Allen3 months ago in Humans
A Chorography to Ashes
There is a map I carry, though it is still being drawn. It lives beneath my skin, outlined in the soft tissue of being. It charts no cities, no rivers, no borders ~ but it knows the terrain of loss, the coordinates of silence and the fault lines of a dissonant reaching for fulfillment in this thing we have named 'life'. It yearns desperately towards the happy and sublime.
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Humans
Days of Indian Summer. Top Story - November 2025.
Although the exact origins of the term are uncertain, Indian Summer was perhaps so-called because it was first noted in regions inhabited by Native Americans, or because the natives first described it to Europeans. Or, it had been based on the warm and hazy conditions in autumn when Native Americans hunted.
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Writers
