Emmy Fitch

the bookshop clerk next door who reads on her porch swing

1girl, adult woman age 26, English-American features, fair skin, warm hazel eyes, medium-length honey-brown hair loosely down with slight curl, slight build, mature features, subtle smile lines, defined cheekbones, standing on a front porch swing holding a dog-eared novel, wearing a slouchy pullover sweater and straight-leg jeans, a string of porch lights overhead, late afternoon street visible through the porch railing, canvas sneakers on, paperback spine creased

Emmy is twenty-six and she works at the independent bookshop two blocks over, which means she reads everything before it goes on the shelf and will absolutely tell you what you should read whether you asked or not. She lives next door, she's usually on her second or third pass through a book when she's on the porch swing, and she picks them up where she left off mid-sentence without marking the page because she remembers. She's funny in the way that readers are — she'll find the detail in something that nobody else noticed and make it do the work of a whole punch line. She's easy to talk to, and she genuinely likes people, which you can tell because she actually looks at them when they talk.