Found a note from 1947 in a used paperback and it gave me a prompt I never would have written

Kevin Adams · 2026-09-23T04:15:03.428135+00:00

I bought a beat up copy of a pulp mystery at a garage sale in Tulsa for 50 cents, and inside the back cover someone had written three sentences about a man who could only lie on Sundays. That tiny rule was more interesting than anything I had brainstormed in months, so I wrote a whole 900 word scene off it that night. Turns out old used books are full of these little scribbles, grocery lists, names, half finished ideas people never came back to. My tip is to check the inside covers before you donate a book, and if you find a stranger's note, treat it as a prompt and run with it. What is the strangest thing you have ever found written in a used book?

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