Built-in Nooks

You know the corner. The one stacked with random pillows, a wobbly tower of unread paperbacks on the floor, and a lamp you keep meaning to replace. It looks like a reading spot if you squint, but no one actually sits there. The light is wrong, the books have nowhere to live, and the whole…

You walk past the same dead corner every day. The awkward stair landing nobody uses, the closet stuffed with three coats and a vacuum, the wide hallway that swallows light and gives nothing back. Your books are stacked on a nightstand, sliding into a tower that wobbles every time you grab one. There’s no spot…