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Susan Messer did not show up for work on Monday, October 16th, 1995. On Friday, her co-worker at the Williams Library, Martin Thompson, waved good-bye to her as she got into her green hatchback and wished her a fun weekend before he crossed the street to catch a cab home. Ms. Messer has not been seen since. Her car was found outside of her apartment, locked, in its usual parking space. Her purse and keys were found sitting on an end table in her apartment's living room. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary when police later examined her apartment, though the search was slightly impeded by the fact the door had been dead-bolted from the inside. With no enemies or grudges, by all approximation, Susan Messer vanished into thin air.

The police investigation concluded that Susan lived a simple and routined life. She called her brother in Bridgeport and talked with him for roughly 45 minutes every Tuesday evening. She had dinner with her parents at their house every Thursday. She worked five days a week at the library, often selflessly swapping days off with her co-workers. She debated about getting a cat. She was known as extremely kind and generous, frequently handcrafting holiday cards for her friends, family, and co-workers, personalized with verses of poetry.

Only one thing appeared somewhat out of the ordinary. Susan often left emails for the head librarian, Karen Comstock, to read when she opened up the library the next morning. The text of the email Mrs. Comstock read on Saturday October 14th:

Karen--

I went through the donation boxes like you asked. I think we need better, clearer signs for the dropboxes. Two of our books were in there, a Clara Hart novel and an out-of-print art book on Russian iconography. Shame to misplace that last one. Someone donated a bunch of Laughton Maur's early self-published large format poetry journals. I think these are pretty rare. Put them aside, I didn't know if you would want to do something with different with them. If not, they should bring at nice price at a special sale in November. I added a few nice art books and 30 volume 1951 Graftwold Simclopedia Set to the special sale pile too. A lot of people ask if we ever get donated encyclopedias. Worth more than a dollar a pop from the general sales.

There was another little book. A play called The Sim in Yellow from 1888, it had been rebound recently, not library quality, but quite nicely. Unfortunately, it is incomplete, as it says it's a play in two acts, but it only has the first act and ends on p. 122. Put it in the special pile at first, but then I took it out. Mrs. Danwith is always first through the door at the sales, and she buys anything and everything with yellow, aged pages for her arts and craft stuffs at the community center. I can just see her shredding this little guy up to decopage a birdhouse or something and my heart sank a little. Long story short, I ended up adding it to the circulation. It just seemed so darling and unique not to. It's not listed on the national database, so I'm not exactly sure if I did everything correctly. Sam never taught me how to add something not from the database. Does he even know, himself? I doubt it. I gave it a DDC of 842.8 for French drama 1848-1899. Anywho, what I put in the catalog:

Title: The Sim in Yellow, a Play in in Two Acts: The Arrival of Cassidia & The Tragedy That Befell Simcosa.

Author: Anonymous.

Date: December 1888.

Publisher: Yves Rosseau & Son, Mont Sainte-Simone, France.

Document type: Book, hardcover, rebound.

Description: xxiii, 122 p. 14 cm.

Genre: Drama.

Synopsis: Cassidia and Polonio travel to the seaside palace of King Hatlio, where there will be a festival in a few days. Cassidia wishes that she could live in such a wondrous palace as the King's. Polonio believes her foolish, but Cassidia promises that one day she shall. Gullupna, an embroider, mourns the loss of her son, a fisherman, at the beach. She is interrupted by four drunk masons who have just finished modifications to the palace. On her way home, Gullupna meets Valunitrox, a musician who is to perform at the festival. She tells him the story of her son. At the palace, Valunitrox, moved by Gullupna's tale, convinces the King that the festivities should conclude with a grand masquerade and that everyone in the whole town should be invited as well. Hatlio and Polonio agree, and Cassidia devises that the guests should all wear bulky purple robes with indentical masks. The next morning Cassidia and Polonio visit the town to order the robes. On the road, they meet the hungover masons who have woken from passing out the night before and invite them to the upcoming masquerade. Cassidia discretely asks the clothier to have the inside hem of one of the robes embroidered with yellow thread. She secretly plans to give the robe with the yellow hem to the King and then charm him. Felanda, a maiden, on her way to Gullupna to commision the embroidery, runs into one of the masons who has lost his friends. When the completed robes arrive, Cassidia is disppointed to find that the hems of all the robes have been embroidered, foiling her plan. The masquerade commences, with many conversations. Cassidia steps forward and removes her mask, calling for the party to do the same. Valunitrox, then a mason, and then the rest, one by one begin to remove their masks as the curtian falls on Act I.

Notes: Title page is framed with decorative scrollwork. The book is incomplete, as Act II is missing. Twenty-three foreword pages are numbered, but contain no text.

That's what I put in there. Had to read it for the synopsis, of course. Kinda weird overall and rather bland. I think it probably turned into a mistaken-identity thing, like something Shakespearean, but no jokes at all, so not a comedy. There's a melancholic undercurrent, with Gullupna's story of her lost son. Throughout the play, characters have random monologues/songs that tell the history of someplace called Simcosa that seems completely unrelated to anything else going on. The masons do this on the beach with Gullupna, for example. I didn't put it in the synopsis, as it doesn't account to anything, do you think I should have? I think I went on enough already. There's no cast list given, so when people like Felanda are introduced, it's a bit strange. There are, however, absolutely fascinating stage directions. For the masquerade, when everyone is in the robes and masks, all the dialoge is spoken by the whole cast in unison, though the actors are instructed to move in a party-like fashion of small groups. Only when Cassidia takes off her masks does the unison stop. Clever, really. The stage description is detailed too, with platform to represent the palace and the parts in front for the beach and everywhere else. This quote is great: "A wall, hung with cloth, to be built at the edge of the platform, center stage, large enough to obscure the most rotund actor, constructed upright, but hinged so can fall down toward the audience, forming a ramp." The most rotund actor... Priceless! I guess that comes into play for the second act. I kinda wanna know what happens, I'll have to see if there's anything about this eventually. Also, Cassidia's name is frequently mispelled. Casisdia, Cissadia, Casidisa. So weird.

So dead here tonight. There hasn't been a patron in at least an hour. Martin closing up the children's section now.

I'm off tomorrow, Deandra wanted my Saturdays, so I'll see you Monday!

-- Sue

The book Susan Messer wrote of was not located, and the entry she put in SIMCAT for it contained nothing but gibberish text, as if the file had been corrupted.

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