The Alaphable Umbrella

A History Book Hardback 8.5 x 11 inches and approximately an inch and a half thick, although the number of pages is impossible to discern. Its dust jacket has long since been lost, and what remains is wrinkled maroon cloth over soggy bookboard. The words, a brief history of, can be made out clearly, but the rest has been burned away. There are hides behind a cracked vending machine, waiting for the thing to pass. She knows it can hear the rapid scratch of her broken pencil, but it is all she can do to get it down. Another futile warning of a future that is already here.

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