Defaulting to Grace

Defaulting to Grace

The Night Library

50-word Microfiction

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Stephanie Loomis
Feb 17, 2024
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Once the doors were locked and the librarian out of sight, the library breathed to life.  One at a time, the books opened their pages. By midnight moondust intersected with the stained glass, and the characters stretched their limbs for a night of dancing and laughing, uninhibited by proscribed tales.

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