The Secret of Madame Legerdemain
JoeCamberwell
How does it begin? A blank page. A silence like an indrawn breath. A soft, lazy whispering of paper... and with a scratching of a quill, a story begins to write itself. Your story.
As you read what's written there, the words address you, as if the writer themself had written to you specifically. This is your book, and you feel it hum with attentive joy that you are here to read it. It was made for just this purpose.
then a voice, "Hello."