The sound startled both of us.

That evening I contacted my former employer and asked whether there might be part-time consulting work involving accessible design.

There was no immediate offer, but the creative director agreed to meet me.

For the first time in a long while, a future appeared that wasn’t simply the absence of disaster.

PART 16

The police reopened the collision investigation after receiving the records through counsel.

They did not make an arrest the next morning, and they did not treat Colton’s account as established fact simply because he had finally confessed it.