The Substitute Bride's Bargain
A white edge, barely visible, protruding from behind the Sontag, which was pushed slightly forward from the spine-line of its neighbors in the way of a book that had been pulled out recently and replaced without precision.
She stopped.
She looked at it — the white edge, a centimeter at most, the particular flat white of something that was not a book, not a bookmark, not the edge of a page.
She reached up and pulled the Sontag forward.
Behind it, tucked into the space between the book and the back panel of the shelf, was a photograph.
Printed. Not digital, not a screen, an actual photograph — the kind you held, the kind with the particular weight of paper that had been handled, the slight war