The Library That Borrowed You Back
Every book had an author. Every author had a price.
In Prague, an underground library existed with no entrance — only an exit. Scholars who claimed to have found it said the books wrote themselves, recording the reader’s life as they turned the pages.
When one man found a book titled The Story of Tomas Kral, he realized it was his own biography — ending with his current heartbeat.
Panicked, he tried to leave. But the final page kept adding new lines:
“He runs. He looks back. He realizes he’s already written this.”
They found his body days later in an alley, clutching a single torn page — blank, except for three words in blood:
“You’re next reader.”
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