Week One Writing Challenge

Week One Writing Challenge

In every library there is a book that kills. “What crap!” thought Fen as he glanced at the first sentence of the novel. Fen stood in the dusty, used library browsing for some summer. Fen put the book back and noticed that the entire book shelf creaked and groaned under the weight of old and yellowing paper backs, spilling a bit of dust upon him…AACHOO!

Wondering down the narrow hallway Fen looked at numerous books but could not get that line out of his head… “In every library there is a book that kills.” What could Paul West mean by that? Did he mean that in every library there are books containing ideas that people die for? Inexplicably, Fen found himself, more then an hour later, back at the same spot looking at the novel. Hesitating he pulled the book from the self remembering the fragile state of the bookshelf.

Fen found a table to sit and started to read. Several hours alter he finished the novel and noticed the time, “shit, I am late for dinner! My mom’s gonna kill me!” Fen ran to the shelf and slammed the book into place. The fragile shelf broke apart with a loud crack and dropped hundreds of books on him, along with the shelf. The ambulance was summoned and he was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced DEAD! Curiously he still clutched the novel.