Novella - Prologue

Dear Reader;

Welcome to Novella, a world of backwards understandings and simple miscommunications. One can not say what they mean in the world of Novella as nothing can be said as it is actually meant. It is an impossibility, but so many try so hard to do that very, very thing. So upon that thought and brief understanding of our world, I shall let you meet the one man within Novella who somehow broke a steel wall with a mallet made of bread. This one man managed to say exactly what he meant and it was soon after that we all began to do the same.

His name was Erik Bernard Nothing. That name was given to him as a joke by the father he doesn't talk with and a mother he never knew. A horrible joke on a child who did nothing wrong but deserved to be always reminded he was nothing. Bernard was the family name but we'll let Erik explain everything once he wakes up. See there, in that little apartment on the third floor of that building on the corner of the street? That small apartment filled with roaches and rats is where the man of nothing broke our world's only impossibility. Of course, in the past, when saying that there are roaches and rats inside, we mean that there are not any. Again, you are welcomed to the world of Novella but thanks to that man, who sleeps below; this isn't the case anymore.

Erik Bernard Nothing, while you can't hear me as I tell your story to those reading now, I wish to give you my full thanks. What you did will forever be remembered by all of us in Novella. Sorry to have gone so far off the point of our story. Let us let Mr. Nothing continue the story from here.