Gristle and Bone

Gristle and Bone

I manifested a bookstore

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Karin Lynn Carlson
Jul 25, 2025
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As of this week, I work at Barnes and Nobel. This is A Good Thing.

Heaven is undoubtably a bookstore. I imagine a patisserie across the street and a florist next door and a city pressed up against the windows. Maybe the windows give onto a quaint crooked street with wooden shutters and window boxes bursting with red bloom, a kind of loitering and twist…

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