the Book Shoppe
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 6948
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~~this is getting weirder and weirder!~~ thought Stacy. But as weird as
it was she couldn't resist to enter the underground shop and take a look-
see at her 'other' persona. There were a handful of patrons within the
shop as she entered, no one gave her much notice – except for one older
man, but he was looking more at her dark blue summer dress with baby-blue
highlights than anything else.
She walked past the 15 percent off rack and the cooking shelves and the 'How to Do your own Horoscope' table, and made a beeline (as much as one could in a shop like this) for the comic books. Besides the plastic figurines, there were peechees, pencils, writing paper, graphic novels, and of course the comic books. She picked one up and flipped through it and saw that this Mistake was set in the make-believe city of New Amsterdam, USA circa 1963. She wore the kind of outfits that Emma Steele would've died for. She would've read more if not for the fact that she was interrupted. It was a woman who looked to be in her mid-fifties. She was wearing a dark grey dress and had rings on almost all of her fingers, and each ring had a smallish turquoise stone. "Have you read the latest?" "The latest?" said Stacy unsure of what the older woman was saying. "Yes, 'Mistakes Never End'. It's a shimdinger! Of course I won't spoil the ending for you, but I sure do get a kick out of Mistake's adventures, and all the fascinating people she bumps into! I especially like it when she gets together with Baron Fredrick von Allar. That man is soooooooo unpredictable! Why sometimes he's the meanest, orneriest S.O.B. around, and then BAM! he does something so good and kind-hearted it just makes you say 'what the hell just happened!'" "Uh-huh," said Stacy to the woman. "Why I'm sure I won't spoil anything if I tell you how she meets up with him in some country called...Hes...Hesperia, no...Hispaneria, naw that's not it either...anyway, they meet up and fight off the robotic slaves of Lord Noddingham! I just loooooove how they mix up adventure with romance and suspense and fantasy! It's like one great joy-ride all put together!" The woman beamed in her literary thoughts. Stacy just stared, transfixed, not because the woman was a great conversationalist, but because certain words triggered memories; Stacy was beginning to remember!!!
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