Daily story, February 16, 2025

You must never turn the covers of a book all the way back on themselves. The story will start to spill out. You will meet people who remind you of its characters. Events uncannily like those in the plot will happen around you. You will think more and more like the narrator. The world will come to resemble what the author believed or feared or hoped it might. You must never do this to your books. I do it, all the time.