Monday, August 31

Hundred word stories - Library

It's a very bad way to store books, unless you're a fugitive and you need to put them where nobody is going to look. A ruined library lost in the jungle like a storyline pulled from one of its own dead volumes, is a perfect place to keep a secret collection. Mine already filled most of the south side.
"If you get desperate enough you'll hide things anywhere," I said to no one, scraping piles of moldy pulp from a shelf into a trash bag. I wiped the shelf clean with a bleached cloth before assembling the new tenants from the box I'd carried in.
Gold's Hymns. Give or Take: The true story of Riban Hooland. Gifford Guide to seventeenth century classical music, unabridged.
I took that one back off the shelf and opened it.
He'd loved this kind of music.

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