Mother’s Paperback Collection
3 min readJun 25, 2021
He was standing in the cool drizzle of a gloomy Saturday morning attempting a yard sale with two small coffee tables mostly full of old dirty paperbacks. John had lived in the same house on 4th street in the same small Midwestern town since he was born. He was used to being alone. His only friend, his mother, died over a year ago. In fact, it was her paperback collection that John was selling.
