After delivering a baby for a lonely mother, the doctor looked at the newborn’s face and dropped his instruments in shock. He stared into the baby’s distinct amber eyes and whispered, “where is the woman who brought you here?” The mother pointed to her bag, revealing an old photograph that solved a twenty-year-old mystery…

home from a double shift one evening to find Robert sprawled on my cheap rug, holding a thick board book completely upside down while Noah babbled at him.

“You do realize that’s not how literature works, right?” I noted, dropping my keys on the counter.

Robert peered over his reading glasses at the upside-down farm animals. “Noah hasn’t lodged a formal continue reading …