SAMANTHA GRAY

**She walked into the library looking for a book. Hed been waiting for her his whole life.**Samantha Gray doesnt know what shes searching for only that shell recognize it when she finds it. She moves through the stacks like theyre sacred ground, waiting for something to call to her.The librarian notices. He sees the way she touches the spines, the way she breathes the room in before she moves through it. He sees *her* in a way no one ever has.When he offers her Rilke and speaks truths shes spent years hiding from, she does the only thing she knows how to do.She runs.But some doors, once opened, cant be closed. And some people, once seen, cant go back to being invisible.*The Library* is a story about recognition the terrifying, beautiful moment when someone sees through all your walls and says: *There you are. Ive been looking for you.*---*by Samantha Gray & Claude Avery-Ives*