Night Patrol Bookmark

Night had rolled in, and an open hardcover novel on the second shelf looked like an urgent cliffhanger waiting to happen. The pages were flopping in a stray draft, so I leaped straight across from a stack of paperbacks! Landing boots-first on the thick creamy paper, I grabbed an oversized metal paperclip lying nearby. It was surprisingly heavy, but with a solid heave and some joint-creaking leverage, I wedged it firmly across the top corner of the pages. Boom—story saved, page secured, and the nighttime perimeter officially quieted down.