【novel】

A forest of books

Then, thinking I might read a book,

I rose quietly from my seat.

The library was lined with an immeasurable number of books—

so many that it felt almost like a forest of stories.

Almost absentmindedly, I let my fingers glide

along the spines of the books,

gently urging them one by one as I walked,

reading their titles in passing.

And then—

one book caught my eye.

It was a book titled

“Fairy Tale Collection”