Isaiah Thomas is unhoused, unnoticed, and unforgettable. He sits quietly on the corner of 7th and Madison holding a cardboard sign that simply "I AM a veteran. Anything helps. $$" But Isaiah doesn’t ask questions—he answers them. Before they’re even spoken.
Reina, a vocational rehabilitation counselor, encounters Isaiah and becomes entangled in a haunting mystery of time, memory, and systemic control. As government protocols move to “mainstream” Isaiah's mind, she must decide what it means to preserve a soul that remembers forward.
This short story bends time, faith, and science fiction into one unforgettable What if Jesus still walks among us—and we try to fix him?