Number 3 might get me fired — I hope my boss doesn’t read this, but if he does, I’ll claim it’s satire. Despite what my last performance review says, I am a bad librarian. 1. I don’t shush people. Maybe some librarians do, but I don’t. How can I? I don’t even own a cardigan. I talk loudly, wear jeans, and try…

I walked this land in a poem once. There was Ozymandias, toppled in the desert sand, a monument that had met its end, as all things should, when they no longer stand for what we stand for. I met you before inside a book, the boy with the lightning-shaped scar, crowded into…