What do you think a world without books would be like?
I watch the sun as it goes down. The sky becomes different colors and it looks...it looks.....ugh, I do not know how to say it.
I like it, I like how it looks.
I wish I could say it better but I cannot think of how to. There must have been some way, some word that existed back then that could describe it right. I hear some of the older people whisper about the words from their times as kids. They say they miss the...beauty. I do not know what that means.
We do not have many words now from what I have heard them say. We only have the words they teach us and that is all we are allowed to use.
I want more, I wish we had words for everything.
Maybe life would be better if we had all the words to say all we want....what we..
What was that word?
Oh yes, what we FEEL.
....that is not my world though. I only know the words they give me.
....that is not my world though. I only know the words they give me.
I hope you enjoyed what you just read. This is how I imagine a world without books.
Ashley Mansour's book Blood, Ink & Fire is a compelling YA dystopian sci-fi novel for anyone who
believes in the power of books.
Coming 2015
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