Liam is an educational content writer and aspiring fiction author from Perth, Western Australia. "Where do bugs go to read?" is in Short Circuit #13, Short Édition's quarterly review.

Leaving her parents behind the second they all arrived together, Lucy tiptoed through the aisles of books that filled her local library. She was determined to find what she had always heard was lurking somewhere within the walls of the library. She had always heard whispers of it around the playground and in shady corners of classrooms. Hidden somewhere in the library was a smaller library, for all the beetles and the worms and the ants to borrow their books. It made sense to Lucy the second she heard it. They couldn't borrow the same books as humans, because their hands were so small that the

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