My Brother Was Believed Dead for Eight Years Until I Found Him Working at a 7-Eleven

It took a second to find it. Eddie had worked for my father when I was in high school, a quiet man who sat at the back counter of the East Market store sorting invoices and drinking gas station coffee out of the same dented thermos. I remembered him because he had once changed a flat tire for me in the rain when my father did not answer his phone.continue reading …