Shop Interlude

 

The old shop was filled with old trinkets. Jewelry, glittering paper weights, even the odd bottle cap.

Some would call the items here treasure.

Some would say it was full of junk.

But for the shopkeeper, each item had a story, and his shop was merely an interlude chapter.

Some items were only here for mere moments, while others had been waiting years.

The shopkeeper knew each item was valuable, even if it didn't look like much. His favorite moments were when a customer would come back, and tell of how the item's story had continued. Snippets of the next chapter,  reminders that the items did still exist beyond the walls of his shop.

One day, he hoped that his shop would be empty of items, that all the halted stories would have continued on beyond his brief interlude.

Then, perhaps he too could continue to the next chapter.