The bookshop was gone the next morning. In its place, a vending machine that only sold warm milk tea.

There is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal. It ages backward when injured. It has died zero times, but started over three hundred.

Over weeks, Yuna started asking strangers on the train things she had never cared about. What’s the oldest sound you remember? If you could unlearn one thing, what would it be?

She stopped feeling like a loop. She became a question mark walking.

But Yuna still carries the first book in her bag. Sometimes, on quiet nights, it grows a new page.

She hopes there always will be.

Here’s a short story based on the phrase (I want to know things I don’t know). Title: The Unnamed Shelf