Jen,

Requests are always welcome.  Likewise, the book-stand podium is available for any who want to grab a book, step up, and read a passage or two.

My only request is that (unless the piece is "public domain" or your own work) do not read the entirity of any given poem, short-story, or essay.  But at the same time, provide sufficient information about the piece that those who are interested in the complete work can located it easily enough at a bookstore or library!

Cordially,

ElderTurtle (P.o.W.)

Yummy!  Books and Chocolate!  This is a nice place! Thanks for opening up the shop, Turtle!

*Sits down in a soft chair near a book rack in the corner, and starts browing through the titles*

Ooop's. I think I just broke a rule.
I smudged a book with my chocolatey mitt's.

Where do I pay?

:)

*approaches proprieter and pays requested ammount*

Ok then, Im going to go and read my new copy of-
*reads book title*
-"The Mating Rituals of the Madargascan Mud-Crab"!?!

This should be interesting. *g*

ET, lovely place, just lovely.

*hands ET a potted daisy*

Get it?

I'd like a pound of chocolate. Dark. :)

*knocks*

I guess I can come in? Cool. I've always wanted to enter the abode of the Turtle who manages to post longer GE segments than anyone could ever dream of even attempting! Oh, by the way, are there chocolate covered books?

Don't me ashamed, on the contrary: I envy that ability. I have to struggle to write something over...say 3 pages. 3 pages for you is like a paragraph for me.

*grovels*

Okay, it's kind of lame, though.

ET The Extraterrestial

ET,

do you have any of ancient style Mayan chocolates that include chili pepper in the mix?  I hear they can unlock one's deepest inner desires.  :p

Elder Turtle -

My gift to you is a hardbound edition of Volume 1 of the Grand Experiment taken from the Forbidden Library at the End of Time. I paid a fiendling 30 blackened souls to copy it for me. It only took him 60 years (at least for the first volume). It's rather big and the print is very small, but there it is. I wouldn't read from it, though - wouldn't want to spoil the story for anybody...

Thanks, Kehv!  I'll stick it in the "Forbidden Books" Chamber ... wait, did I say that aloud?

Cordially,

Meow Fond Troll (Use a Partridge)

A slender figure slips out of the door of the Tea-Shoppe and makes her way down the street to the Cellar she has heard so much about. For a moment, there is a sort of hazy afterimage about her, almost resembling wings and a tail... but as she steps through the doorway, the impression is gone. She is a woman of average build and cheerfully devious demeanor, nothing more.

Hello, Elder Turtle!! I brought you a little something...

produces from within her coat a small slip of paper which she places on the table next to the Selection of the Day.

It's the packing slip for your espresso machine. *G* You cannot have chocolate OR books without coffee... and as I hadn't heard mention of it yet, I took it upon myself to call in a favor owed me from a long time ago...
It should be here within the week, possibly by tomorrow, and I would be thrilled to teach anyone who wishes to learn how to prepare their own drinks...

She grins a bit, and hugs ET warmly.
Regrettably, I have other people to visit and other gifts to deliver, but I shall return again soon, have no fear!