I did a DNA kit for fun. It matched me to a woman marked "sister" I had never heard of, two years older, given up before I was born. My mother went white when I said the name. My father left the room.
The day after my grandmother's funeral my phone rang from her number, disconnected a week earlier. I answered. There was her kitchen radio, her chair creaking, and one word in her voice before it cut out.
On my third day at a huge company I meant to send one private joke to one friend. I sent it to the entire staff mailing list. All four thousand of them. With a typo.
A message from my own number arrived reading 'wear the boots' — timestamped the next day. Twenty-six hours later I understood, standing at a flooded rail crossing.
