No Two Persons

by Erica Bauermeister

“It’s weird,” she said, “when one thing can be so many things at once, you know?”

Books spoke to specific people for specific reasons, and it had everything to do with where they were in their lives.

“I just don’t think life gets tied up with a bow very often.”

“Maybe that’s why people want it in a book,” she said. It was basic marketing—give readers what they don’t get or can’t have in regular life. A safe brush with evil. A flaming romance. Certainty. Nola thought for a moment, then shook her head. “I guess I just like the idea of possibility. Like an invitation, not an answer, you know? It gives you something to think about later.”