A Night In Daddy's Bed
The lift carried me to the fourth floor.
I walked the corridors with deliberate purpose, keeping my head down. Through swing doors, I caught glimpses of the newsroom—desks cluttered with paper, phones ringing, voices overlapping.
Every so often, my leg stiffened, locking momentarily before swinging forward again, as though braced in a splint.
The librarian was in her sixties, with dyed hair and half-moon glasses hanging from a chain around her neck. A rubber thimble covered her thumb, used for turning pages. Her desk was surrounded by an unlikely collection of cacti.