Once Upon a Tryst
In a world that didn’t always treat him as valuable, the library was a place where he felt seen and welcomed.
And then he was gone. Sometimes the only time I can feel close to him is when I’m sitting between the racks, a book in each hand.
My father LOVED sci-fi and fantasy. That’s how I got my name, Faye. He used to call me his “fae-child,” his “elf-touched beauty” like his own mother used to call him, the only one of his siblings with violet-blue eyes, a gift from his grandmother that he passed down to me. We’d spend hours going over fairy tales, reading about Avalon and Wonderland, Tir-na-nog, and the Shire, to the point that those worlds seemed more real to me sometimes than the world we
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