If you swim before the children waketake me along. Though it is you, Folly Beachlifer, and me ... [+]
Rolli is the author of Kabungo - a novel about a cavegirl who lives on Main Street. His website is rollistuff.com "Bibliomaniac" is in Short Circuit #09, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Books are gentle companions. Usually. Except for that one time I was just about murdered by books. That was twenty years ago . . .***I didn't know what to do with my life. I had no prospects. I had an arts degree. So I started reading a fair bit. More than usual. I read for ten to twelve hours a day. I'm not sure if I was deeply depressed, or just really loved short stories. I read a lot of Hawthorne. Poe. Wodehouse—he's pretty good. I bought a couple thousand books. Not all at once. I was only an aspiring writer back then, so I could still afford to buy things. I still lived at home (I had an