Meigan is rather miffed, but shrugs it off and leaves a handwritten note to them in the box to next time please take just one or two books, or leave a book in return. All goes well the first day, but on the second someone empties out the Little Free Library box completely. Meigan builds a Little Free Library from a kit, paints and decorates it, sets it up in her front yard, and puts a bunch of her old books in it for neighbors and passers-by to trade and share. Hugo and Locus award finalist short story! Free to read online here at Tor.com. Still and all, it's a fun story and reading it would be a nice and necessary break from watching the news and checking yourself for symptoms of vitamin d deficiency (i.e. However, the story ends on one of those tingly BUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? notes that some of us-the old salty horror-loving curmudgeons of us-will imagine the next beats of in a way involving enough splatter to make y'all gentler folks faint dead away, but it's not our fault-our tastes have taught us all too well that you shouldn't take candy from strangers, or adopt a child or bring an animal into your home or communicate with entities you don't fully understand <- none of which are true spoilers, but they all live in the same neighborhood of 'cautionary tales this story is not teaching.' and it stays on the 'good' side of twee-i thought it was charming and i'm an old salty curmudgeon.

the whole time i was reading it, i was braced for it to slant off into tweetown while still hoping it would be horror, since it is essentially the same set-up as my all-time favorite Amazing Stories episode:īecause we're all going through a thing right now and everyone's a little on edge, i'll spill the tone-beans THIS ONE TIME so you know what you're getting into: it is not horror. If you can bring me more such books, I will leave you every scrap of gold I can find.Ī perfect, adorable, FREE short story.

Little free library naomi kritzer