Monday Required Reading. Have you heard of the blog elephantine? I happened upon it through a link in a weekend roundup post on another blog I read regularly, and I was hooked from the moment I opened it. It's run by the lovely Rachel, who also runs two shops (a gorgeous jewelry shop and an adorable kitchen shop), and, as she puts it, is "working on being a writer." To that end, every Friday she publishes a very short story on her blog, and they are more than lovely. Today, I would like to share "Soup For A Lonely Heart" with you.

Wait for a windy day. Heat up a little butter in the tallest stockpot you own, then dig out the biggest onion you can find. In all likelihood it will be hiding at the very back of your cupboard; the good onions always do that. Chop it up with a recently sharpened knife and toss the pieces into the pot. While the onion cooks, read a few pages from a book you haven't touched in ages, and if you like the way it sounds in your head, tear them out, crinkle them up, and add them to the onions. Don't worry about the missing pages; you'll remember how the story goes. 

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