The Book of They by Kris P. Kreme
Max Milton is just a middle-aged man starting a new chapter of his lonely life in the middle of nowhere, having bought an old gothic country library to live in.
And while the repairs and work are exhausting and painful sometimes, the country life does come with unexpected pleasures, like seeing the gorgeous redhead farmer’s daughter from down the road on a daily basis.
But after finding a certain hidden book beneath the floorboards, Max will discover ways of rewriting the very laws of reality itself to better suit his increasingly sordid imagination.
They say a good book can change everything… and the Book of They is that book.
Max Milton was always imaginative, being a single man over the age forty sometimes depending on his imagination to picture a better life. But even he never could have imagined the way everything would change that hot July week after he moved to the country.
He’d long since accepted that he wasn’t the kind of man that ended up getting everything he wanted, and being imaginative, finding the old gothic country library being sold complete with endless numbers of dusty old books inside, he figured it was the perfect change of pace. And as he has struggled with the constant needed repairs to the old building, there have been some benefits he never expected.
One of those is the farmer neighbors a mile down the dusty old road through the tall grasses surrounding his library home. Gene and Patricia are as kind and honest a folk he could ever ask to know, but the real spice of excitement in his daily life has always been their daughter Constance. She’s as sweet as ever, and takes daily bicycle rides by his house, always a friendly greeting, and frequently some wise advice from long ago to offer.
And while her words of advice and friendly smile is great and all, even Max has to admit, her supple nineteen year old body, her gorgeous red hair, there’s plenty to appreciate about a neighbor girl like Constance.
But nobody could have ever predicted that all the They say advice Constance is always quoting would turn every frustration Max Milton has into an opportunity. And it all begins a hot July week when Constance happens to bring up the hedge clippers her daddy loaned Max. He admits to her he broke them and she brings up the phrase “they say you should always return something you borrow in the condition you borrowed it.”
It’s one even Max has heard of as he heads inside shortly after she rides off on her bicycle. But through his own clumsiness and the old crumbling library, Max damages a floorboard and finds a very thick old hardback book like none he has ever seen before.
Opening it, there is no title other than on the outer binding, and no author names, no publication dates. It is called simply The Book of They and inside are countless handwritten phrases, including the one she just said. But when Max Milton erases and alters that phrase purely on a lark, he could never expect that the following day somehow Gene from down the road would actually quote it right back to him, accepting the broken clippers and thinking nothing of it.
Confused, curious, definitely baffled, Max Milton is soon trying something else, writing his own little They say phrase and when his phrase somehow comes true, leading to a seriously enjoyable encounter with young Constance the next day… he may soon find his budding dirty old man brain imagining more and more twisted kinky phrases to enter into the book that changed the entire world… The Book of They.
Readers Choice Month reminds readers to never scribble in a book, unless of course your scribblings can change the very reality around you!
Coming Next… It’s all in… spaaaaaaaaaaaaceeee!
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