The God of the Lost comes to everyone, at some point or another. For Jamie Doran, it was a few days after he’d been told his mother died of pneumonia, […]

“If I’d had any sense, you know,” he says aloud, a lifetime of other thoughts folding and unfolding inside his head, “I’d never have gotten caught up in that mess.” […]

“How’s that song go?” “I have no idea, and don’t sing it anyway.” “Oh, come on. You get so ‘Bah, humbug!’ around Christmas, Scrooge.” “Because it’s just–” “–fake and commercial […]