“Healthy body,
healthy mind.”
Garfield* #quote
Jessica's going to be coming over tomorrow so that'll be totally
radical. Wonder where the expression radical came from. Probably from
some math enthusiast. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
A Book's Desire
Bram Stoker's Dracula sat on a shelf wrapped in a protective seal.
Books love to be read, but this particularly copy of Dracula had
never been read. And it was a first edition! So very valuable the
collector refused to let it be damaged.
Dracula didn't understand. Why didn't anyone want to find out what
happened in its pages? The creature of paper couldn't fathom the fact
that everyone knew its story. Or at least the general premise. It
couldn't understand the value of collecting. It just knew that no one
hugged it with their fingers and held it close while grabbed by the
story in its ink.
The book felt incredible excitement when a new owner purchased it.
Finally! Someone to read it! Someone to love it! But this person
merely placed it on a shelf for protection. And this was how the book
lived. Exchanged between collectors again and again who carefully
preserved it.
Forever appreciated in a way it never understood.
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