Love That Came Back Around When everyone else walked away from a little orphan girl battling cancer, I stayed. I didn’t know it back then, but love has a strange way of circling back — sometimes when you least expect it, and in ways that change your life forever. For years, I faced the same questions at every family gathering, every office event, and even from strangers who thought my life was their business.“Are you married? Do you have kids?” And each time, I forced a smile, swallowed the lump

The Sandwich That Changed Everything Two weeks into my job at the busy café, I still couldn’t figure out the register without breaking into a sweat. I wasn’t trying to be a hero — I just wanted to keep my head down, earn a paycheck, and maybe find somewhere to sleep that wasn’t my friend Marcus’s couch. My back was starting to hate me for it. But that morning, Kylie, my coworker, decided to make things harder. “You forgot to restock the oat milk again,” she announced loudly, so that

I thought grief had already taken everything from me — until a wolf appeared at my cabin one snowy night, carrying a newborn baby in its jaws. I never expected that moment to change everything — or that days later, strangers in suits would show up demanding the child. But if they wanted her, they’d have to go through me first. I’m 36 years old. Exactly one year ago, I lost my wife, Sarah, and our unborn son during childbirth. The doctors said there were complications, that there was nothing