Member-only story
Throwback Thursday: An Ode to a Bookstore
It was a magical time
Given the tepid response to my recent Throwback Thursday installments, I had almost decided to give the exercise in futility up after nearly three years of attempting to bring new life to old stories. I say almost because as happens so often when I try to end an exercise in futility, fate intervenes. This time, fate intervened in a way that I should have expected, given how regularly it happens.
Most of you know that in addition to pursuing the Quixotic notion of being a full-time writer, I also once owned a bookstore. It was a lifelong dream that I finally achieved at the age of 50 and that perished in grand style a little over a year later. But as Vision said in the vastly underrated Avengers: Age of Ultron: a thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts.
Two weeks after I began writing on this site back in 2021, I wrote an ode to that dearly departed bookstore. If you’ve not read it (and I know many of you have), you can check it out below:
