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The Novelist is a book by L.L. Barkat, which combines prose and poetry. A few of the chapters also have audio. (This audio is not public on YouTube, but weβre including the link for you here, to enjoy.)
The Novelist Previewβfrom chapter 1β¦
THE END.
She typed finality across the center of the page and closed the laptop with a snap.
What would it be this morning? She turned to her tea cabinet and opened it quietly. Maybe a green jasmine. She could tweet about it later and make Megan smile. Megan would have tweeted something about a new Earl Grey, and they would share fantasies about each otherβs kitchens and tea cups. Or did Megan use a mug?
This would explain it. Why she typed, βThe End.β This lack of attention to detail. Shouldnβt she know by now what Megan took her tea in? Hadnβt she read a few hundred tweets or more, about English Breakfasts and new green blends, a white tea for afternoon, and a cataloging of how many cups Megan had drunk by 9 pm? She had. Over and again, she had.
But she could not recall Meganβs imbibing-receptacle-of-choice. A novelist would remember these things. She would even be willing to research about tea, wouldnβt she? To create a believable character based on Megan? An authentic character who knew her basic pekoes from her golden tippys?
Novelists were like that. The real ones, anywayβ¦