Future Fantasy, our wonderful local science fiction bookstore, which also carried mysteries, and was the ONLY local source for those great Terry Pratchett sculptures from Clarecraft, has closed forever! I got no warning whatsoever! This sucks big time. Lee's Comics, the comic store in the same block, closed earlier, but moved to a nice new location even closer to my house. Nothing like that gonna happen for Future Fantasy.

I had hoped that the exotic merchandise at the store would save it from the mass extinction that is claiming many bookstores (not just little ones, either. Super Crown Books just bit it too.) But no such luck. So it goes.