A man pauses for a little girl selling flowers—but the bracelet on her wrist reveals a long-buried past he thought was gone forever

what she said. You gave it to her before you left.”

Daniel pressed his eyes shut for a moment.

He remembered the night. Of course he remembered — he had just spent years pretending he didn’t. A city he’d been passing through. A bookshop. A woman behind the counter who had been reading poetry aloud to herself, quietly, unaware he was listening. The bracelet continue reading …