A writer__ primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore__ is to make cents.
The luminescent flow of a sunbathed garden_ illuminating the shifting colors of its inhabitants_ echoed in my memory as I opened the antique bookstore door in the shaft of window light. The books, like the flowers of the garden, awaited me with the thrill of a new mystery.
The Rose and the Sword
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The luminescent flow of a sunbathed garden_ illuminating the shifting colors of its inhabitants_ echoed in my memory as I opened the antique bookstore door in the shaft of window light. The books, like the flowers of the garden, awaited me with the thrill of a new mystery.
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