Cappucitno //free\\ -

Marco noticed she always carried a battered hardcover book. Never a phone. Never earbuds. Just a book and a pencil with no eraser.

She drank it slowly. Then she left her copy of Middlemarch on the table, dog-eared and underlined, with a note tucked inside: For the next tired person. cappucitno

Marco lowered the rag. “You’re tired.” Marco noticed she always carried a battered hardcover book

Marco turned. His stomach dropped. There it was, written in his own careful hand under “Specials”: dog-eared and underlined