#i'm absolutely sure there is a typo or mistake hiding somewhere in this post that i will discover later and rage about

[goose-books]

D U O D E C I M A L ↳ a novella by max franciscovich

(image credit to tamanna rumee on unsplash)

Sixteen-year-old Marshall Gardner is 1) straight-laced, 2) exacting, 3) judgemental, and 4) perfectionistic. And below the surface, kept hidden from the rest of the world, he’s 5) controlled by his obsessions and compulsions, 6) fixated on the number twelve, 7) hopelessly in love with his best (only) friend, and 8) horrendously imperfect.

He’s also 9) universally disliked, 10) the self-made enemy of the former GSA president, 11) just a little too easy to trick, and 12) in trouble.

a story in twelve parts, ft. color symbolism, neurodivergent feelings, trans people, the “locked in a room with the person you hate” trope except it’s not enemies-to-lovers they just hate each other, & at least one ray bradbury reference.

AKA “the short story that got away from me and became 23k words,” AKA boy howdy have YOU ever wanted a twelfth night retelling that fully ignores the gayass love triangle that is the main appeal of twelfth night and focuses instead on the irrelevant background characters and their silly little subplot??? have i got the novella for you!

duodecimal is entirely free & being released in full!

all 23k words of it. links & content warnings under the cut.

general cws: alcohol issues, obsessions & compulsions, homo/transphobia (internalized & external), the mc attaching his entire sense of self-worth to school

cws by part:

IV: a brief suicide mention; a line that could be triggering for EDs because the mc makes himself vomit

XI: depiction of a panic attack

V, XI: vomit (not graphic)

[google docs link (commenting open, allowed, & encouraged!)]

[if you’d prefer the story in PDF or EPUB format, find the folder link here!]

[playlist, vetted to contain exactly 12 songs (warning for the d slur used in the cover image lmfao)]

[and, as a bonus, here’s marshall’s on-repeat playlist]

edit 6/26/22: now featuring commentary!

thank you for reading!

#max.txt #duodecimal tag #atlastracking #i'm absolutely sure there is a typo or mistake hiding somewhere in this post that i will discover later and rage about #but i've been staring at the post button for like ten minutes so here goes i guess. #the target audience of this one is me but you should read it anyway because i like how it came out.