Book Picking Up The Pieces Novels & Stories

Joe explained and then moved his pinky finger in the air. A big stone out of nowhere suddenly come in front of the person. The person tripped over and fell down, the blanket also dropped revealing the beautiful face of a middle aged women. Joe's eyes frowned but he continued staring at laptop screen. Ruby was walking casually around the book shelves, she was checking different books from different shelves randomly. Suddenly her eyes got stuck on certain special book. The book looks like an old ancient manuscript with a metallic bronze cover. There was a lot of dust on the cover as if this books is not touched from decades.

Her lifeless tone comes with such fragility, but her words can sometimes make out of steel or shattered glass. “To befriend someone, no, miss.” Alfred parked the car at the parking lot in front of the bookshop. He opened the door for Reverie, and she began to walk inside that bookshop. She saw him waiting at the reading section of that bookshop holding a book of sports. He didn’t see Reverie yet, but he keeps on looking at someone near the window. Reverie grabbed a book and smiled as she walked towards him. “Oh, you’re here,” Jim said when he saw her.

The books looked very ancient. Out of nowhere, my head started spinning again. I stumbled forward and some of the books from the file fell down. I picked them quickly and placed them back in their place. As I was keeping back the last book, a piece of paper fell off. I picked it up involuntarily.

The pieces of my existence were scattered all around me, like the jigsaw puzzle of my life, cruelly disassembled. My eyes fell on a photo frame, its glass shattered but the image inside miraculously intact. It was a picture of my parents, their smiles forever preserved in that moment of joy. The contrast between their happiness and the devastation around me was almost too much to bear. I continued my search, driven by a desperate need to salvage something from the wreckage. My fingers brushed against a crumpled piece of paper tucked beneath a fallen bookshelf. I unfolded it, and my heart skipped a beat as I recognized Kevin's familiar handwriting.

"Something just caught my eye but I can't just tell what it is, maybe I should try repeating this motion I just made" He once again tried to walk around the shelf but nothing spectacular happened. He tried repeating his motions for the umpteenth time but he didn't catch anything else, therefore, he decided to give up on the quest and resume his clumsy book search. Just when he was about to wind around the shelf again, something moved. He immediately became alert and tried to memorize what he had just seen, slowly he walked over to a book in the corner of the opposite shelf stacked in between a host of others. He gently almost fearfully hoisted the books up and pulled out the prime suspect, e

I looked at the picture book for a while and then turned my head to look around the room. I decided against it and went to put the book back in its place. As I reached to place it in its spot, I noticed the thin layer of dust on the surface underneath. I lifted the book standing next to it and saw it had a clean surface, the entire shelf was clinically clean except for this one spot. This book had been brought out a few times. As I held the book up, a piece of paper fell out and fluttered to the floor. I picked it up gently and saw it was a picture of a little girl, she couldn’t have been older than two, sitting on a woman’s legs and had her head rested against her chest.

He stepped closer, his fingers tracing the spines, hoping to stumble upon something out of place. But as he meticulously examined each book, his hopes began to wane. It seemed that nothing was amiss. His frustration grew, his mind racing to make sense of the puzzle before him. There had to be something, some piece of the puzzle they were missing. He couldn't accept defeat, not when a life is at stake.

But no, she won’t do that. It’s like she even eats here. That’s the only explanation for that plate she was holding. I walked to the front shelf and I dust a part of it as I began taking the books out, I think it's high time I take responsibility. Since I want to check for things I think I will use the opportunity to clean this place up. Maybe a few shelves and later on I will do the whole room. I blow the dust away from the book and I began coughing while taking the books one by one and keeping them on the empty boxes behind me. Taking another book, a photo fell out of it. I picked out the picture, it is of a man. It’s in black and white and the side of the photo is a bit blurry. It’s an ol

Just one more thing that was taking some getting used to. The desk was halved completely into two big pieces and a lot of little pieces. Papers scattered across the floor. He gingerly picked up the photograph that had set on the desk, glad to see it wasn't broken in the fall. The picture remained the same. Ten sets of eyes staring out at him, smiles on their trusting faces. He set the picture up on some boxes where it would be safe. The men watched over him from their perch as he bent to pick up the scattered papers and files.

I stand in the middle of my destroyed room and wonder what I'm supposed to do next. I'm not sure who I should call first. Dante? Ethan? The apartment manager? I think that I'll be staying at Dante's place tonight. Just standing here doesn't do anything, though. I hate seeing Nan's book on the ground. It's always been in a place of respect. Leaving it on the floor feels wrong. I quickly walk over and pick up the heavy book. A picture falls out of it.