Fiction Dewey Decimal System Novels & Stories

she sniffled with a smile on her lips. “Well I'm not award-winning funny, but I made you smile,” I pointed out. “Come on,” I bumped her shoulder with mine. I grabbed a book. “Tell me how this Oohy-Gooey system works.” “It's Dewy Decimal System,” she laughed, then she snatched the book from my hands and began to explain. Her lips parted and words came out, but I wasn't listening to none of them. I just smiled and nodded and even threw in the occasional 'OK' and the good ole 'I Got It' here and there. For a human, she was easy on the eyes.

“Right. With a few exceptions.” “Well, libraries aren’t allowed any exceptions. The books have to be in perfect order at all times. You can’t do that with just sorting by genre and then alphabetizing.” “Yeah, that’s what the Dewey Decimal system is for, right?” “But there isn’t just Dewey. There’s the Library of Congress classification system. Dewey is a clean, efficient system, ten main classes divided by ten and so on. The Library of Congress is alpha-numeric and based on 26 classes, one for each letter of the alphabet. Compared to Dewey it is crude and confusing, and I only had the library that way because of Maggie. It’s what she was used to.”

I awe. Books were everywhere. They weren't organized by the Dewey Decimal System, they were organized by time periods. That's my favorite way to organize. I grab my mate's arm. "It's perfect." I snuggle into his arm. He wraps his arm around my torso. "Not as perfect as you." **dream**

A whole section labeled simply FOR WHEN YOU NEED IT that contained everything from Didion to a 1987 field guide to North American birds. "This is not a system," Caleb said, reading the spines in the second room. "This is a personality." "It's better than a system." Mara pulled out a slim novel, read the back, and put it back. Pulled out another. "Systems tell you where things are. This tells you what things mean to each other." He looked at her. "That's a very specific distinction." "I work with words. I have a lot of very specific distinctions."