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- Authors: Elle M. Stewart
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A LIBRARY HAD never seemed so daunting.
It shouldn’t have. It’s not as if it were some massive Renaissance-Era
edifice, domed and imposing. It wasn’t the New York Public Library, flanked
by two stone lions acting as silent, judgmental guardians. It wasn’t even that
spaceship-looking monstrosity in San Diego, all hard corners and glass walls
and angular concrete supports.
No, the Ashville Public Library was a single-story brick rectangle on a
quiet corner in a quiet town forty minutes outside Wichita, Kansas. That
corner is where Jo Rainier stood on a Tuesday evening in late April. For nearly
five minutes, she’d been staring at the front doors, psyching herself up to go
inside.
“You’re being ridiculous, Jo,” she muttered to herself. “It’s going to be fine.”
A middle-aged white woman emerged from the library, paperback in hand.
She had seen Jo and smiled at her on her way inside. Now, she smiled again—
and then did a double take. “You lost, sweetheart?”
Jo shook her head, about to toss out an “I’m good!” before she remembered
she wasn’t in California anymore. It might be rude not to give an actual
answer. “No, I’m just…” She scrambled for a valid excuse. “I’m waiting until
the event starts.”
The woman’s eyebrows raised with interest. “Is there a new book club or
something?”
“No, it’s, um, a game night?” Jo said, twisting the statement into a
question.
“Ah,” the woman replied. “Not for me, sweetie, but you have fun.” She
waved like she and Jo were old friends.
Leaning on her newfound manners, Jo waved back as the woman headed
toward the parking lot. “Have a lovely evening, ma’am!”
Her phone buzzed. She slid it out of her jean jacket pocket, half-hoping she
was suddenly needed to cover a shift at White Hills Senior Living and Care
Center, where she was the newest member of the nursing staff. No such luck.
Just her calendar app with one final reminder.
MnM night
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Ashville Public Library
Sure enough, it was six thirty on the dot. Jo silenced her phone, took a
deep breath, and finally walked into the library. She’d been here a handful of
times in the three weeks since she’d moved to Kansas. Ashville’s library was
tiny compared to the ones she frequented back home in Orange County, but
there was a decent variety of titles and plenty of cozy spots to read. And since
moving so far from home was ostensibly about saving money, she was trying
really hard to borrow books instead of buying them.
Now that she’d made it into the lobby, Jo’s nerves eased. It was hard to feel
anxious surrounded by that familiar old dusty-book smell. She glanced
around, but there were no signs indicating where to go for the game. The
flyer she’d seen on the events board hadn’t listed a specific spot either.
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