5 Minute Freewrite Prompt : library

Located in a grassy triangle across from city hall and next to a community and a playground, the North Pizzaria Public Library was neat, organized, and as well-kept as its meager funding would allow. The city budget had shrunk along with the rest of the economy, but Calley did her best to keep it stocked with new books. She loved everything about the library, and if sometimes she wished she could wave her wand(not that she ever had one) and set everything to rights - spruce up those shabby couches in the reading corners, replace the antiquated computers that still flashed with black and green monitors.

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The library was on prime beachfront property; the reference room had a spectacular view of the ocean, and once a while Calley would make a point of stopping by the small, cosy nook just to have a look at the waves crashing onto the beachhead.

Unfortunately it was this same breathtaking view that threatened the library's very existence. Recently, North Pizzaria's mayor had made not-so-unsubtle that selling off the prime beachfront property would be the easiest way to pay off the city's mounting debts. Calley Calley was not so opposed to the project per se, but she had heard that the mayor thought it might be a fine idea to do away with the library altogether, now that so much information available online.

The bureaucratic destruction of her precious library was too distressing to think about, and Calley tried not to feel too helpless that morning. Walking down the same streets to the library for the past ten years, she felt a sense of calmness and peace. Yet, she felt different this morning. There was a constant tingling feeling behind her neck, the ones that she felt whenever something wrong was about to happen.

Looking up, she saw a huge mega size bulldozer parked in front of the library. HER LIBRARY !!