There were a few things that just didn't happen to Bruce, and among them were phone messages like the one he had gotten the other night. He hadn't been a large enough presence in anyone's life to be the chosen recipient of 'I'm going off on an adventure' calls in a very, very long time, and he wasn't entirely sure he liked it ( Read more... )

Bruce felt weird about this moving arrangement for a lot of reasons. One of the smallest factors was the fact that, as he walked the last few steps to his new house with just a medium-sized backpack on his shoulders and a coffee thermos in one hand, he realized that this probably wasn't how most forty-two-year-olds did things, and he was pretty ( Read more... )