novella, n.All

A Novella (n.) asks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠'What happened?' while the tale asks 'What is going to happen?' — the novella is always a last novella, the tale always a first tale.

A Novella (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠about the x that has just happened; the tale is about the x always about to happen; the pure event is both, never an actuality.

A Novella (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠built not on memory but on a fundamental forgetting: what makes me say 'whatever could have happened?' is the nothing that made me lose my keys.