The Bookstore Sisters: A Short Story

he was waiting at the door.

She was thinking about the way a fish loved a river, and a bird loved the sky, and a mother loved her daughters. She was remembering everything. How love could change a person, how it could cause you the greatest sorrow or shelter you from harm.

Isabel had noticed that her niece had hidden away Andrew Lang’s fairy books, for she planned to read them when she was done with Mary Poppins. Once she began reading an author, she didn’t like to stop

“It was before Violet was born.”