After two and a half years of writing, I have finally finished my very first webnovel, entitled "Be a girl", which you can now read in its entirety here.
Be a girl is a story about a teenager who so desperately wishes she could be a girl, but believes it to be impossible. It's a story about denying what your heart most wants. It's a story about coming to terms with the fact that you will never get the fairy tale ending you always wanted. It's a story about becoming the person you were always meant to be in a world that doesn't want you to. That even if you don't believe it, you can be a girl.
Be a girl is very personal to me. It's based heavily on my own experiences growing up as a trans girl. Back then, I never believed I could be a girl, even though I wanted it so desperately. Be a girl is a letter to my teenage self. It embraces her with an understanding of what she's going through, and whispers that it will all be ok. It won't be perfect, but you can be a girl. I promise.
Unfortunately for Ben, his wish for an uneventful seventeenth birthday goes unanswered. As expected, the bullies who tormented him through m
