Old Man's Secret Love Story Unfolds in a Chance Encounter with a Young Thai Girl **co-writing with my friend from Imagefap, Reddwarf** Richard Sullivan, an old Librarian. A quiet old scholar who spends his twilight years puttering around the towns dusty old library, sorting and filing endless volumes of forgotten lore; a thick and corpulent man who glides with surprising grace amongst the rows of shelves, carefully pulling and placing the old leathery books. He sighs sometimes, missing the days when he and the Library were younger, when it bustled with activity of people coming in and out every day, seeking knowledge and information that he happily shared with all. Children would sit in a circle, wide-eyed and entranced as he would read to them some old tale of long ago, delighting them with fairies and princesses and knights and dragons. Ah, but as he looks at the orange light of evening stream in through the tall windows, he realizes that his days are past and that most everyone uses their computers and the internet to look up the knowledge he still guards faithfully with his old-fashioned books. Smiling sadly at his melancholy, the old fat man pushes the last musty volume home on the shelf as he once again thinks of just locking up the Library for good and retiring. The front door creaks and the bell jingles, momentarily surprising the old gent. Puzzled, he checks the huge round clock on the wall and sees that it is quite near closing time, yet standing framed by the tall wooden arch of the main door was a dazzling splash of color, a young girl. Her dark hair, brown skin and mysterious, shining eyes were so different from the men and women who lived in this small town; she looked so exotic and unique, her thick lips and nose made up the old man's mind that she must be a visitor from far away, or at least far from this place. She quickly spied the large man and with a twinkling smile strode up to him, a fresh scent of jasmine and peppermint following her like a refreshing breeze. Her shining face looking up to the gray-bearded man so earnestly made him grin broadly, delighted with the sight of her. …but everything was about to change
