Editing Libraries of Faerie (section)

===The Unfinished===

It was a section of the library I have never seen. It was unfinished. The half finished manuscripts were there lying in boxes, unpacked. Nothing here was complete. Some of the almost greatest works of the world lie here. Unfinished. Forgotten. Thrown away like discarded broken dreams. Or stopped by death. Or disease. Or poverty. Or self-doubt. Some folks just... grew up and became realists and let their world altering masterpieces fade into a distant bitter memory. Many manuscripts could have changed world history if completed, helped someone find true love, lie in long abandoned piles. Once in a lifetime insights or inspirations that could only be perfected by the author. Anyone else would just get a tantalizing glimpse of infinity or perfection. Brilliant revelations of untold importance, lost forever.

One graduate paper, if finished would have found the cure for AIDS. Another would have been the ultimate poem that could bring humanity to even the hardest serial killer. Another was an incomplete love letter to her true love, a love that would have been true and eternal, but instead was sitting all alone in a corner covered in cobwebs. Another was an unfinished patent application that could have reduced the cost of Solar Cells by 83%. There was a song that if completed could begin to heal the world. I saw a letter, that if sent, would have prevented a suicide. His own child's suicide. Why did they stop? Answers are not to be found in this section. Many do not even have names. They just sit here gathering dust and to slowly crumble away. 

I could have sworn I left something there... but I can't remember what or even how to get back.