Paper Cuts Scissors [short story]

Justin, a library science graduate student gets a job cataloging a private library whose owner has a unique talent – the ability to call characters out of books for elaborate midnight cocktail parties. But Justin has his own reasons for being there… namely his ex-girlfriend, who has the ability to fold things – including herself – into books. Another story that gets my personal favorite LibraryThing tag: “permeable boundaries between books and reality”. This unavoidably felt like The Eyre Affair, which is not necessarily a bad thing, and Sandlin’s library was a fun place to let my imagination run wild. But the emotional heart of the story, Justin’s and Megan’s relationship and how it ended, didn’t really ring true show more for me. show less