Sex by the Book

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It had been a long, slow day in the library. Ellie had spent the last two hours with her feet propped up on the desk, paging through a book she’d read a thousand times and sipping a rapidly-melting iced coffee. The dusty, puttering little fan was doing little more than circulating hot air and everyone who wasn’t obligated to be in the library was wisely opting for swimming, or at least some place with an air conditioner.

Ellie had been lobbying the town for better climate control for years now — for the sake of the books! — but they never seemed to find the money. So she suffered and sweated through the whole summer, sucking down popsicles and licking on ice cream cones just to survive. And this one was even worse than the year before. Every week seemed to set a new record high. Ellie had long ago sacrificed any semblance of professionalism, coming to work dressed in cutoff shorts and a spaghetti-strap top, not even caring how much of her milky pale skin was showing.

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