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The church youth leader handed me his copy of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. “I think you’ll really enjoy this,” he said. It was a conventional Presbyterian church, no hidden progressive agenda. Yet here was this twenty-two-year-old youth leader teaching me from a good book other than the Good Book—a book with important ideas about censorship no less! It was the most important religious experience in my brief time as a Presbyterian and the first chapter in a still-unfinished story of unexpected

Connecting at the Santa Cruz Metro

A Short Story The day before Thanksgiving 2006, I sat on the Santa Cruz metro station bench at 3:15 a.m., layered in hoodie, cable-knit sweater, and jacket, still bone cold, struggling to keep my eyes open. My thrashed old copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road shuddered slightly in my shivering hands. Two hours and four minutes to wait. I was already yawning hard enough to count for an abs workout. I heard the man’s whistling before I saw him. The cheerful, disembodied tune gave me a start, and