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    Bookstore Stories
    Bookstore Stories
    Bookstore Stories
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    Bookstore Stories

    By White Feather

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    White Feather always wanted to be a writer. As a young man he figured that one of the best jobs he could get was one working in a bookstore. He would be surrounded by books every day, he could read voraciously, and he could learn a lot about books and the book business. Working in a bookstore, he was like a kid in a candy store. Over the course of three decades, he worked in several bookstores and even owned and managed his own bookstore for nine years. White Feather has many stories from all these years spent in bookstores and these nine stories are a selection of his favorites. Spirituality, reincarnation, synchronicity, and love weave through these stories as events are related that are often far more bizarre than one would normally attribute to life in a bookstore.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Feather
    Release dateJun 12, 2013
    ISBN9781301778362
    Bookstore Stories
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    White Feather

    Author of numerous books, White Feather has been writing stories and essays for a few decades and currently lives on the Great Plains of Turtle Island.

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      Bookstore Stories - White Feather

      Bookstore Stories

      Short Stories by White Feather

      Copyright 2008 by White Feather

      All Rights Reserved.

      Smashwords Edition, Copyright 2013

      Gumroad Edition, Copyright 2015

      Cover Art Copyright 2012

      By White Feather

      This is a work of fiction

      Books by White Feather

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      Lip Gravy Press

      This is a copyrighted work. No part of this ebook may be copied, quoted, shared or distributed in any way without the express written permission of the author.

      For Shawnee, the Bookstore Dog

      ***

      Table of Contents

      The First Day I Ever Worked In a Bookstore

      My Second Bookstore Job

      The Large Woman

      Cradle Robber

      Yet Another Bookstore

      The Other Shoe

      The Honeymoon

      Mommy

      The Most Bizarre Bookstore Story of All

      Books by White Feather

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      The First Day I Ever Worked in a Bookstore

      Jimmy Carter was president, but I was just barely cognizant of that. Back in 1978 the only thing I was aware of was my own roller coaster amusement park life. It was in July and I found myself in the hot rotisserie oven called North Texas. My wife and I had just separated and my girlfriend had just dumped me. On a whim, I up and quit my restaurant manager job. I was just 21 years old and in the process of releasing everything that had been me, in hopes of creating a whole different me.

      If it sounds like I was down on my luck, it cannot be understood how down on my luck I was until I also reveal that the air conditioner in my car was broken. I had been driving around the hot sauna of Arlington, Texas most of the day looking for a job. I really didn't want a job, of course, but I looked nonetheless. By mid-afternoon I was thoroughly drenched in sweat and at the end of my heat endurance rope. When I saw the exit ramp for a shopping mall, I said aloud, Screw it! I took the exit, and as I parked my car, I ripped my tie off and threw it on the seat next to me. I just had to get to some air conditioning quickly!

      It was euphoric to step into the mall and be blasted by cool air conditioned air. It was glorious is what it was. I decided to just hang out in the mall for a while--to heck with jobs. I got something cold to drink then walked the mall. I walked slowly, taking in the milling of people and the many storefronts. Maybe I would take in a movie, I thought. Maybe I would just do whatever I wanted and think about jobs another day. I opened myself up to whatever presented itself. I walked and walked. As I passed a bookstore, I realized that I had not even been in a bookstore in many, many months. So I turned to walk into the bookstore when all of a sudden I saw it....

      It was a 'help wanted' sign at the counter of the bookstore! I stopped in my tracks as I felt a strange energy envelope me. Electricity seemed to race through my body. Something suddenly clicked for me, but I wasn't sure what it was. As I proceeded into the bookstore and began browsing around, I found myself wondering what it would be like to work in a bookstore. As I looked at the books on the shelves, I could almost feel them calling to me. I felt compelled to reach out and touch the books, to straighten them, and organize them. I saw myself with a stack of books in my arms, going around the bookstore finding the right shelves for them. I felt I had done it before, in another life. And I suddenly wanted to do it again in this life.

      I was reminded of my passion in life; writing. I hadn't done any writing since before I had gotten married two years before--hardly any reading, either. If I had to work, wouldn't it make sense to work with something that is tied to my passion? Maybe if I

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