Becoming Novels & Stories

Not what he was. But what he was becoming.

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Certain. And far too knowing. It’s what you’re going to become.

She was no longer just surviving. She was becoming.

Only truth. finally becoming undeniable.

She said: "Thomas taught me to say this when a plant or a bed or a section has arrived at its full expression. When it has become fully what it was going to be. The foxgloves in the thirty-first spring are what they are — the bed has completed its becoming. The subsequent springs will be the maintenance of what it is. The significant change is done." Don wrote this in the notebook. Ernest looked at the foxgloves throughout the kitchen garden. He looked at them as Ruth's sentence described them: what they are. The full expression. The completed becoming. He thought about the difference between the becomin

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Outside the glass the system hummed gently. Learning. Waiting. Becoming.

They got ready and headed out on their bikes. POV Sam Sam felt hollow since Ruby had left. He distracted himself with football and girls and had earned himself quite a reputation. He didnt mind though, in fact, he was proud of his fuckboi status. Being football captain had certainly helped him in that regard. He started playing guitar at the beginning of sophomore year just so he could get in with the arty and music chicks. It worked like a charm, too. They all bought his sensitive musician act, of course, until he dumped them after he had his fun.