The chatty bookseller tallied up the purchases and asks, “excuse my curiosity, but the person on the back of the books looks very much like you.
Are you the author?”
I smiled, enjoying my own fantasy of being a famous author being recognized. “Yes, I replied, I actually already wrote the first one.”
He looked confused. “What do you mean by having written the first one? Your name is on the three of them.”
I looked him straight in the eyes, knowing well that I was going to say would not make sense to him . But it was fun to play along.
“I have not yet written the second nor the third. They are part of a trilogy . I’m actually in the planning stage of the second one.” As I expected he looked confused even starting to be upset.
“Are you making fun of me? Your books are here in front of me . I just tallied them.”
I moved one step backwards as I was not sure how he would react. “I actually come from the past. I found a way to travel into my future. This is my first attempt. I thought it was a fun test to seek out my books in the future.”
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