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Bookstore Magician
“Sellouts and Traitors” spawned. The girl’s finger tapped CASH OR CREDIT ONLY.
A magician strolled down the how-to isle cradling Your First Herb Garden.
Rows of books became rosemary, basil, parsnip perhaps—the daydream died at the “Magic Tricks Revealed” sign.
The magician fumed. He readied the herb book.
Smiling, the magician twisted his mustache and hide his fingers in his hands. He blew through his hands towards the magic books.
They shifted about but nothing happened.
He tried again. Nothing. Again. Nothing.
“Huzzombie!”
The girl at the checkout began to watch. The magician knelt and scanned the books.Making Little Kids Cough Up Goldfish
Making Little Kids Think You’re A God Dude
Making Things Appear
Making Things Disappear
The missing step was in Making Things Disappear.
After twisting his mustache, he hid his fingers in his hands (behind his back this time), and blew at the books.
They disappeared.
He carried Your First Herb Garden and Making Things Disappear to the counter.
The girl looked up from her book.
“Look magician, unless you can make those books reappear, you’re paying for them.”
Flipping through Making Things Disappear his face grew red.
“Huzzombie!”
Luckily he remembered a trick.
He handed her a Visa.
The magician walked out with a herb book, a bill for over $3,000, and the knowledge of how to make things disappear but not reappear.
At the chime of the exit bell, the girl bookmarked her spot in Making Things Appear.
She walked to the empty section and pulled a mustache from her back pocket.
“Bookstore Magician” by Nathan T. Baker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
