West with the Night
Walking down a tree-lined block in the East 80s the other day I passed a brownstone with a pretty patio fronting the street. [...]
Magazines for the Principal
I had a very happy, 30 year career as a school librarian, the last 20 spent at Jane Addams, a small vocational high school [...]
Shakin’ in the Stacks
In an instant, there was a rumble and a slight jerk, and then a slow roll, as I watched the stacks of books opposite me rise [...]
Check It Out
Full disclosure: I have not read, or even heard of, North Country Nurse by Robert Ackworth, but when I saw the picture of the [...]
The Diary of a Young Girl
Among my friends and the distaff side of my family are many very accomplished women – doctors, nurses and therapists, a [...]
Suicide Mission to the Library
There is nothing I love more than reading to young children. I felt like we had fallen into a treasure trove of great [...]
Adventures in Libraryland
The first step for new hires in the group was mastery of a seventy-page manual about alphabetization Seriously.
Treasure Room
David took a job with Google DeepMind and moved to London in January, 2015. Google put him up in a two bedroom apartment for [...]
Stories from the Previous Prompt
Hacks and Scams
Don’t Do Me Like That
The scamming emails seem to come in constantly. Fortunately, they generally go into my spam folder and I never even see them. [...]
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"When Anastacia was six, a first grader at Ulloa Elementary, she watched a movie that forever shifted her worldview."
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Our hearts all skipped a beat, so you can imagine the child’s terror, her scream piercing the waiting area.
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