am/pm by amelia gray
I think there is a girl hiding in Texas. She delivers newspapers and teaches college students how to read and writes little stories on her customer's newspapers but instead of delivering the newspapers she brings them home and cuts out the notes and puts them in a scrapbook. This scrapbook wasn't publicly known to the general population for a long time, but eventually an owl for featherproof books snuck in her window one night and whispered in her ear and convinced her to let featherproof publish her scrapbook of notes scribbled on newspapers. She has since quit delivering papers and instead focusses on teaching college students to read.
To be honest I bought Amelia Gray's AM/PM as an afterthought. I was standing in line at the bookstore and saw it on the bookshelf next to the register. I had read bits and pieces about the book online and liked the cover, but never was interested enough to order it. Seeing it in person, next to a dozen other books, it jumps out. I wanted very much to devour it and reform the stories in my brain. Lots of credit goes for the design of AM/PM. As for Amelia Gray, she deserves a bit too. I'm tempted to type out her sixteenth story from AM/PM, but I'm not going to. Instead, I urge you to go to the bookstore, find the book for yourself, and read the sixteenth story. If you like the book buy it. If you don't like it, try reading a few more stories from it. It might grow on you. If you're indifferent, read the whole thing right there in the bookstore. It's a quick read. I began reading it halfway through a cross-continental flight and finished it on the escalator to the baggage claim.





