Detail of a Vera Wang wedding dress. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I'm somewhat at loose ends, now. I picked a wedding dress over the weekend, and it seems like I don't have anything to do for a while, wedding planning wise. Now it's just save, save, save, since I have to pay for the dress, and put down another deposit on the venue, and book all the vendors...but that's for later. The wedding is still nearly a year away, so I have a little time to catch my breath before the next big thing.What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.]]>
When a librarian finds a murdered historian in the undocumented vaults of the library, she discovers that magic, unusable for centuries, is returning to the world, and those who once wielded it are returning to take back their homeland.
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From the oneword prompt "romantic."
There was a bottle of wine and a candle on the table when I got home. Next to the candle was a matchbox and a note:
"Light the candle and drink the wine, and think of me. I can't be with you but know that I'm doing the same thing, wherever I am. Love you."
I started to cry.
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