I hadn’t seen Kevin in forever. He got scooped up by Karma and swept off to California to work on some super-secret project involving world domination and, for all we knew, time travel. He was the lone wolf, the alpha geek and, oddly, the party animal in our cadre of college friends. Considering all that, I was surprised when he told me he was getting married. You know how it is, right? Your cell phone rings, or, more likely, your email dings. You see this name on the screen, one that ...

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SENDER: Joseph SUBJECT: Come back Please come back, Philip. I don’t know where you’ve gone. I’m looking everywhere. So my name is Philip, he thought. He didn’t know who Joseph was. He didn’t know much of anything else either. He pressed Delete. He saw the city for the first time, unburdened by memories. Is this what being born is like? A hum began deep in his chest, a tune he had no words for. It swelled and burst into unashamed song. People all around stopped to...

SENDER: Joseph SUBJECT: Come back Please come back, Philip. I don’t know where you’ve gone. I’m looking everywhere. So my name is Philip, he thought. He didn’t know who Joseph was. He didn’t know much of anything else either. He pressed Delete. He saw the city for the first time, unburdened by memories. Is this what being born is like? A hum began deep in his chest, a tune he had no words for. It swelled and burst into unashamed song. People all around stopped to...

 I hadn’t seen Kevin in forever. He got scooped up by Karma and swept off to California to work on some super-secret project involving world domination and, for all we knew, time travel. He was the lone wolf, the alpha geek and, oddly, the party animal in our cadre of college friends. Considering all that, I was surprised when he told me he was getting married. You know how it is, right? Your cell phone rings, or, more likely, your email dings. You see this name on the screen, one ...

“How could you be so stupid, Dad?”   The boy backpedaled, at seventeen not yet a match for his father in a fight.  He sidestepped the drunken charge, but only halfway.  The older man’s momentum carried them both backwards, glancing off a wall, then onto the threadbare sofa.  Clumsy, roaring, he landed a blow on his son’s temple and another on his rib cage.  He didn’t stop to wonder why the boy wasn’t putting up more of a fight. ...

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Four o'clock already. You could always tell the time by the church bells. If you were paying close enough attention to count them, that is. Anna could just catch sight of the steeple, shimmering reflected in the glass facade of the office building across the street, if she leaned over the counter to her right. In the mornings, the sun glared off the glass and into the cafe, flooding the waiting customers with light and making the cashiers squint rudely at the register. Two had taken to weari...