A light caught my eye as I poked my head around
the shelf furthest from the door. It drifted through a curtain of beads hanging
from a plank in the back of the store.
Across the sign were the words: DO NOT RETURN.
Not Employees Only. Not Restrooms or even No Public Restrooms.
DO. NOT. RETURN.
Do not return from what? Was this an entrance from the other side of the building? And why shouldn’t you be turn around and head back if you came through by mistake?
I glanced over my shoulder. The lady at the counter busied herself ringing up a stack of books for a middle-aged couple. I was clear. Nobody would stop me.
Nobody would ever know I left. And that’s why they never found me.
I pushed on through.
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