Dustjacket Flowers

Danial Thames spends his free hours loitering in the public library. There he tries to glean some semblance of the life he finds described in books from his encounters with staff and patrons. Finding a scrap of writing on the library floor, he is inspired to litter fragments of his own random prose into the pages of various books. After many months, he discovers a notebook in which his writing has been copied down. Discovering that the collector is a talented writer, Danial Thames attempts to develop a friendship but finds himself jealous of the freedom the writer has to accept or desert him.