"Are you there?" I blink off raindrops. I must have played one of his voice mails by mis-take. But I thought I deleted them this morning. "If you can hear me-say some-thing. Let me know if this is you ..." I don't remember that line from before. So this must be something else. Maybe I hit my head and am suddenly imagining things. My vision blurs, so I close my eyes again to stop the trees from spinning. I'm not sure if his voice is coming through the phone or my own head, but I answer it anyway. "Sam?" Silence fills the woods. For a sec-ond, I think he's gone. That he was never there. But then I hear a breath that isn't mine. -from You've Reached Sam”