Shut down
Consoling the unemployed works until you're the one who needs consoling.
World, interrupted
When a friend has a child, dreams of global touring can go up in smoke.
Marcus
How a friend's success can turn your world upside down on a lark.
Date over
Some messages just can't be canceled, no matter how much you want them back.
Whitney
A celebrity death can make you reckon with more than you want to.
Too close
On a date, a meeting, charm, twilight, and finally outright darkness.
Broken wand
Whoever said holiday-time parties are fun by definition never looked between the lines.
Decades
Picking up loose ends with a long-ago friend can be a recipe for... dissonance.
Letting go
Making peace with past decisions means giving yourself a break.
Filling the hole
Building a memorial tower doesn't mean sticking around after it's finished.
You feel it
Attraction is strangely arbitrary, and when it hits you it wastes little time.