Jenny examined the small black notebook she had picked from the woman’s pocket. The alphabetized pages were blank—except one. “Jenny” and a phone number. She dropped it and a one-inch a square fluttered to the ground. She copied the phone number onto her palm, and returned the square to the notebook.
“Heritage Stamps.
“Do you buy stamps?”
“We auction them off for clients. Do you have stamps?”
“One.”
“One?”
“It’s red…white writing… blue upside down airplane.”
Three buses and two hours later, Jenny was at the auction house.
Logan took out a magnifying glass and inspected the stamp. “How did you get this?”
“My grandfather. When I was little, I used to do cartwheels in front of his house. He would call me his inverted Jenny.”
“Well, this Inverted Jenny is the real deal.”
“How much is it worth?”
There was no provenance. She looked like a street urchin and Logan doubted her story of how she got it. “I’ll give you twenty thousand.”
“Dollars?”
“Yes. One time offer,”
“I accept!”
“Sold!” the auctioneer announced. The Inverted Jenny was sold to an Italian collector for 1.4 million dollars. Logan brokered the deal. He didn’t give Jenny a second thought.
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Mindy Reed
Mindy is an, editor, narrator, writer, librarian, and educator. The founder of The Authors Assistant published Women of a Certain Age: Stories of the Twentieth Century in 2018 and This is the Dawning: a Woodstock Love Story in June 2019.
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