Stories tagged “bookstore”
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Non-Fiction Part I
I had a half year run as a bookstore employee. One average day, a small girl was calling for her parents in the middle of the store. I thought she belonged to the adults next to her, but when they walked by her I knew she was all alone. I approached he...
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Interrupt
I climb to the bookstore’s second floor, walking toward the cafe at the southern end; I always liked that place, with huge windows letting in so much sunlight you can forget winter is only a week away. I’m not the only one loving to sit dow...
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A Call From a Stranger
The phone rang, causing Adam to look up from his book. He’d thought of disconnecting the troublesome thing before, in situations like this; being ripped from the depths of a good story to speak to someone likely bearing bad news. He grasped at th...
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The British White Bookstore
Heads up, said Sarah, we had something strange. Marguerite nodded slowly. We worked at a bookstore with big white cows drawn on its sign. Sarah explained: seven black males and one white male were loitering in the store, in biography, then religion, th...