Shady Dell Public Library
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By the time you spot the librarian, she’s already been watching you for some time.
Would stabbing a human with a shard of femur….?
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Would stabbing a human with a shard of femur….?
The Librarians were like, “Yeah, NO.” Have you ever been glared at by seven women named Agnes in bespoke cardigans? Our Executive Director slunk back up to admin, defeated for the time being.
We are pleased to announce we will be keeping our books—for now.
We are pleased to announce we will be keeping our books—for now.
February 4, 2026 at 6:57 PM
The Librarians were like, “Yeah, NO.” Have you ever been glared at by seven women named Agnes in bespoke cardigans? Our Executive Director slunk back up to admin, defeated for the time being.
We are pleased to announce we will be keeping our books—for now.
We are pleased to announce we will be keeping our books—for now.
Free and open to the public. Popcorn will be served.
February 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Free and open to the public. Popcorn will be served.
So many great articles made into books that are basically just the article plus 150 pages of mediocre anecdotes!
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 AM
So many great articles made into books that are basically just the article plus 150 pages of mediocre anecdotes!
Thanks for your ongoing patience as we navigate this inconveniently-situated Karst topography!
February 3, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Thanks for your ongoing patience as we navigate this inconveniently-situated Karst topography!
Leland B., Head of Maintenance, assures us that rest of the Library is structurally sound.
No materials were lost, except for some folding chairs, which the Executive Director says will be replaced as soon as the insurance claim goes through.
No materials were lost, except for some folding chairs, which the Executive Director says will be replaced as soon as the insurance claim goes through.
February 3, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Leland B., Head of Maintenance, assures us that rest of the Library is structurally sound.
No materials were lost, except for some folding chairs, which the Executive Director says will be replaced as soon as the insurance claim goes through.
No materials were lost, except for some folding chairs, which the Executive Director says will be replaced as soon as the insurance claim goes through.
Gotta help the little guy!
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Gotta help the little guy!
What this means for the weather is TBD
February 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
What this means for the weather is TBD
You’re right, Jeff—that would be so frustrating! Although we—er, it—is getting more friend-like each day and won’t it be great when you don’t have to think of your own thoughts on, say, the weather?
February 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
You’re right, Jeff—that would be so frustrating! Although we—er, it—is getting more friend-like each day and won’t it be great when you don’t have to think of your own thoughts on, say, the weather?
Light refreshments were served in the courtyard.
February 3, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Light refreshments were served in the courtyard.
We just shipped all copies of the book back to the Estate for the same reason! We found the kids were coming away with the wrong message—trying to start their own environmentally destructive corps bent on raping the land and running out the native people instead of…not doing that.
February 2, 2026 at 7:40 PM
We just shipped all copies of the book back to the Estate for the same reason! We found the kids were coming away with the wrong message—trying to start their own environmentally destructive corps bent on raping the land and running out the native people instead of…not doing that.
from Reading in a Thin Place: An Examination of the Library as Liminal Waystation (Armitage 1974)
February 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
from Reading in a Thin Place: An Examination of the Library as Liminal Waystation (Armitage 1974)
She can’t stop thinking about it, is the problem. Does the dead zone affect her colleagues the way it affects her? What are its properties? Has it always been there, or did it appear after the sinkhole disaster of last year? She longs to study it. She writes theories instead of sleeping at night.
February 2, 2026 at 12:15 AM
She can’t stop thinking about it, is the problem. Does the dead zone affect her colleagues the way it affects her? What are its properties? Has it always been there, or did it appear after the sinkhole disaster of last year? She longs to study it. She writes theories instead of sleeping at night.
If she crosses this zone more than twice in a day, a clear liquid dribbles from her ears—but only briefly.
Valerie R.’s manager has told her she is spending too much time in the hall between the admin offices & the staff ladies’ room, & that further behavior might result in a disciplinary action.
Valerie R.’s manager has told her she is spending too much time in the hall between the admin offices & the staff ladies’ room, & that further behavior might result in a disciplinary action.
February 2, 2026 at 12:12 AM
If she crosses this zone more than twice in a day, a clear liquid dribbles from her ears—but only briefly.
Valerie R.’s manager has told her she is spending too much time in the hall between the admin offices & the staff ladies’ room, & that further behavior might result in a disciplinary action.
Valerie R.’s manager has told her she is spending too much time in the hall between the admin offices & the staff ladies’ room, & that further behavior might result in a disciplinary action.
We will reschedule Diana M.’s postponed local history talk, “’We Came Upon a Little Dell Where the Sun Seemed Afeared to Shine’: The Inauspicious Beginnings of Shady Dell,” as soon as she has completed her Mandatory Staff Training modules! The modules have a way of jogging one’s memory.
February 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
We will reschedule Diana M.’s postponed local history talk, “’We Came Upon a Little Dell Where the Sun Seemed Afeared to Shine’: The Inauspicious Beginnings of Shady Dell,” as soon as she has completed her Mandatory Staff Training modules! The modules have a way of jogging one’s memory.