The Young Librarian
Rod WalemanIt has been said that the average man (or woman) leads a life of „quiet desperation,“ that modern civilization and especially the large urban areas are merely trapped enclosures behind which the basically free souls of men are caged and preyed upon.
In our society there are traps within traps; traps set by the stronger to capture the weaker. The Young Librarian is a story of one weak woman preyed upon by a gang of young hoodlums who are no better than animals. Unsuspecting, naive, inexperienced, Linda is caught by forces stronger, more cruel, than steel jaws, and her struggles-although valiant-are fruitless. Indeed, like the small fish caught on the cruel barb of the hook, her struggles only attract the larger predators.
The Young Librarian is, in essence, a story of life as it is lived today in some quarters. Its characters are honestly drawn and all, without exception, have their counterparts somewhere in the darker shadows of the jungle of our cities.