Story’s Trying to Bowl Me Over Backwards, Knock Me Forwards

Writing today’s 365 story, “Remembering Lena,” and it’s deceptively simple because it’s not simple at all.

Snippet

Wesley Bryn returned to the book on Wednesday. The title and author name on the cover meant nothing to him—David Copperfield, Charles Dickens—but inside the front cover, a soft blue floral designed bookplate had a due date for Wednesday, today, blue inked in loopy feminine handwriting. Stamped at the bottom of the bookplate was an address for Pretty Things, presumably the establishment where he had borrowed, rented, or otherwise procured said book.

Prompted by pygmymuse

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