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Inside the Archive, the shelves moved with my breath. I passed by a book bound in velvet dusk. Its title: The First Time You Chose Softness Over Safety. Another: How You Loved When No One Was Looking. I reached for a third. It burned with light before revealing its name: What You Became When You Stopped Trying to Be Understood. I wept then—not from pain, but from reunion. The guide touched my shoulder. “There’s one more,” they said. They led me to a door I hadn’t noticed.

“mom wait, I didn’t tell you cause I don’t understand, I just shifted yesterday “ I explained “ this is bad, very bad we need to send you back “ she said collecting random stuff and clearing the table to dope the things on. “what are you talking about you said there was no way out “ “Well there is no way for once like me but your not like me are you ?” she said ,I smiled happily I’m finally going to see my mate again. Hours later “ i’m done all you have to do is just look into it ...wait” she said as i was about to look in to it .she went some where and came back with an old book, and she passed it to me .

Breyona chuckled dryly as she sat beside me on the couch. I ignored the two of them as they began full-scale bickering. My fingers ran against the jagged pages, faded and stained with age. The book itself smelled old and musty, looking as though it would crumble to dust at any moment. The repairs Breyona’s parents had made to the book were all that kept it from falling apart. A grimace formed on my face as I reread the information. ‘Did you expect it to change?’ Maya chuckled humorlessly, ‘It says the same thing as before.’

Dots. Glee started for the bookcase but turned back. There it was, on her computer hutch beside the keyboard, the thin edition Katie had brought to her. She looked down at the small flimsy book with its cracked spine and gold lettering—From Wealth to Poverty by Rev. Austin Potter—and suddenly recognized it as a turn-of-the-century collection of daily temperance sermons and personal anecdotes she had bought at a rummage sale once, written by some long-dead Methodist minister. Stories she used to read Brookie when she was a little girl growing up inside this house. But what was the passage again? The page number and chapter? Katelyn had mentioned them, and now Glee couldn’t recall.

They soothed me in the most surreal way and made me yearn for her all over again, more than I ever did. Like a child who just got reunited with his parents, I wanted to break into tears. Vent to her all the pains and agony I've been through since the last time we spoke. I wanted to explain the ugly incident that had made the papers. So badly do I wanna explain my side of the story, just in case she believed the papers and thought of me as some cold-blooded psycho.

It felt strange, how something so small could pull at me like that. We kept walking. Somewhere near the corner shelf, I stopped again — a thin book caught my eye. The First Year: A Guide for New Parents. I reached for it, running my thumb along the spine. Pages soft, edges new. I flipped through — pictures of fathers holding babies, smiling mothers, small notes on feeding and sleep routines. For the first time that day, something in my chest loosened. “You know,” the storekeeper said, glancing at the book, “most fathers come back for that one. They say it helps.”

Her fingers found one and she retrieved it titled We Were Liars. The edges were frail and worn from overuse, the smell of old paper suddenly filled her nose and she placed the book back. Her eyes scanned the shelf more and her eyes suddenly found a book. Gone girl by Gillian Flynn She suddenly remembered her mothers words, the first time they met “It was a classic gone girl all over again ” Emily retrieved the book immediately from the top shelf where it was hidden, it’s surface covered with dust and she wiped it clean with her hands. She opened it, the first page reading Boy loses Girl.

"Where is it?" My mother looked away. That small movement told me everything. "You have it." She didn't answer. "Mom." My voice became sharper. "Where is the book?" After a few seconds, she walked away. I followed her. She returned holding something. A book. Old, handwritten. The cover was worn. My breath stopped. Because even without touching it, I knew. It was the same book. The same book I found in the library. The same book I had taken home. The same book I had abandoned because I thought it was nothing more than a childish story.

The day the university released the family placement positions for doctoral graduates, I went straight to the Human Resources Office to register. But the staff member barely looked up before rolling their eyes. "Mr. Slater, everyone at this university knows you cheated on your wife and are about to leave the marriage with nothing. How do you still have the nerve to ask about the placement position?" I thought there had been some kind of misunderstanding. I rushed home, hoping to explain everything to my wife, only for my mother to slap me across the face. "I don't have a shameless son like you. Get out of Natalie's house!" I was driven back to the rural school where I had spent the past

she said. The attic had always smelled like dried herbs and old paper. My mother moved through it with the confidence of someone who knew exactly where everything was, which meant she'd been up here recently even if she hadn't said so. She went directly to the far shelf and came back with a book that I recognized from childhood — dark cover, no title. She set it on the table between us and opened it. It took time to find. The book wasn't organized the way modern things were organized — it moved by association, by category of cause rather than symptom, and we had to work through two wrong sections before my mother's finger stopped on a page and stayed there.