820 Views 5 Favorites 33 Chapters 0 Chapters/Week 25 Readers 0 Reviews 153.8k Words Jun 7, 2025 PaperDragon Sam is your typical teenager; one might even say she has a modicum of popularity at her private school. Is her family wealthy? She's actually not sure, but she doesn't want anything other than the burning need for a car or motorcycle. This doesn’t relieve her from having all the typical teenage responsibilities, such as school academics, track, and a part-time job at her family's business. Her typical life helps to mask the dark secret of her childhood as a child slave, which left her physically scarred and traumatized. Sam hides her scars but works to positively resolve her trauma, the state of which is best punctuated by violent responses to triggers. She’s getting better
... more>> though. Her past can't be used to blame all her behavior; her parents being banned from several countries is a red flag in polite society. Plus her best friend, Shesho, and her family are hiding from their dad, who tried to kill them.
Just your typical private school teenager, until she finds a metal card about the size of a library card in her pocket. Then things get weird. This card opens a door to the Library of Things. Where she learns answers to questions she didn’t know to ask. Like she is a clone, and maybe there are other reasons she can speak a half dozen languages at 16. Not wanting to feel left out, The Library itself is a mind-boggling place where one doesn’t check out books but any item or thing from across the universe. Quantum doors can take someone anywhere in the library or universe. The Library of Things is described as the third wonder of the universe for good reason.
But she has to finish high school. That was a hard rule from Mom.
MC is more than meets the eye. There is a lot going on, but she just has a lot going on in her life.
Her childhood includes slavery, brutality, and trauma.
The Library is absurd, on purpose. Be Sam, prepare to roll with it.
Slice-of-life
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