August 2013 Archives

Greg's out cycling alone through the English countryside when he stumbles on an abandoned manor. The place is a shell—gutted by fire, overgrown with weeds, all its former grandeur buried under years of neglect. Something about the ruins pulls him in. He can't stay away.

They call him Buster because he tumbles down stairs before he can walk. Born to traveling performers, he's onstage before he can talk. Too young for comedy but built for stunts—this kid becomes a physical comedian out of pure necessity. His body is his instrument.

Stella's brilliant but unstable. She reinvents her life constantly, running from childhood trauma. Walking through London one day, her worst memory confronts her again—right there on the street. No warning. Just the past, suddenly present.

Emily's seventy. Her husband's dead. She's selling the family vacation house on Lake Erie in Chautauqua. The whole family gathers for one last week—to say goodbye to the house and to what it represented. Memory, loss, and the weight of family history.

"A life isn't just the sum of choices you made. It's that sum multiplied by how others see you, divided by the coefficient of pure chance." Philippe Zafar, Lebanese-American, lives in New York. His story involves identity, fate, and the randomness that shapes everything.