From An Unfinished Life, by Mark Spragg: Starla taps the desk beside the pistol. "Anytime you think you'd like to borrow her, all you have to do is ask." She swivels her chair closer to the desk and leans over the pistol. "When I was Susan," she says, "I used to be a librarian." She licks the pad of one of her perfect fingers and wipes a smudge from the pistol's barrel. "Susan had a rich internal life." She winks again. "Starla lives it."(pg. 106).
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
an excerpt.
From An Unfinished Life, by Mark Spragg: Starla taps the desk beside the pistol. "Anytime you think you'd like to borrow her, all you have to do is ask." She swivels her chair closer to the desk and leans over the pistol. "When I was Susan," she says, "I used to be a librarian." She licks the pad of one of her perfect fingers and wipes a smudge from the pistol's barrel. "Susan had a rich internal life." She winks again. "Starla lives it."(pg. 106).
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Your real life is out now:
You've seen her darting into the stacks in search of Moody's wearing Chanel knock-offs and Kenneth Cole shoes. You've glanced at her from the corner of your eye during conferences wolfing down free scones while decked in what you'd swear was last year's Mizrahi. Or you've seen her with that Linda Evangelista-like pout and Oliver Peoples frames as the umpteenth person has asked her where the bathroom is. And you wonder, "who is that exquisitely attired woman and are my tax dollars paying for it?" Who is she? She's a Lipstick Librarian!
http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/
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