The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1)

by A.J. Hackwith

But what happens when the inevitable occurs? When the world forgets me, so I begin to forget myself? What do I become, when I am nothing but a librarian?

How much easier it would be if everyone knew their role: the hero, the sidekick, the villain. Our books would be neater and our souls less frayed.

Stories change, and stories go on. Maybe souls do too.

“I might have disagreed with his choice, but I would not steal his right to make it,

No story is insignificant. That’s what the existence of the Unwritten Wing teaches us. No escapist fantasy, no far-off dream, no remembered suffering. Every story has meaning, has power. Every story has the power to sustain, the power to destroy, the power to create. Stories shape time, for Pete’s sake. Once upon a time. Long, long ago. Someday. And then what happened?

And here’s how you make a story: Soak a life in mortality. Scrape the soul.