The Collectors
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Being a librarian has its perks, you get to be surrounded by books that are filled with stories to be told. But have you ever wondered where those make believe worlds come from, along with the characters that almost seem like they're real? Well, Ruth never thought about that as she wandered through the towering book cases each. However, that all changed when a strange man suddenly appeared in the library. Little did she know he was going to throw her into the world of The Collectors, a group of select people who travel to different universes, where the stories that seem to good to be fictional are real, they collect the tales of that world and bring them to ours by weaving them into the dreams of the writers in our world. Though, Ruth is quick to learn that every story has its monsters.
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