Quick Story: The Archives

A letter came in the mail - a letter of "Good News!" but when the author who had come so far read it, the paper was twisted and torn apart in their hands, teeth gritted and eyes burning with an anger that had been a long time coming. Determined rage filled their every step as they stormed back inside their work home, ripped down book after book from the shelves and placing each of them reverently in a thick canvas bag."Very well. If /that/ is how they choose to act, then I will have none of it. There are other, more /appropriate/ places for me to establish my workshop," they said with bitter tones, mourning flooding alongside the fires of betrayal.With their most valuable works safe, they took the match to set alight the rest, leaving them to smoulder and crumple with the workshop, but they paused as a collection of six stories greeted their eyes like silent pleading words."Well... a few people would miss them."So they approached the books, taking them down one by one and ripping out select pages to place carefully into a new book. Those select stories were saved, and they live on here.