Journey: The Unexpected

Leo had always been a man of lists. His life was a tidy spreadsheet of obligations: work, sleep, grocery shopping on Wednesdays, a walk in the park on Sundays. Spontaneity was a typo, and he intended to correct it immediately.

Inside was a single sentence: The key is under the loose floorboard in your old closet. Don’t wait. the unexpected journey

Leo thought of his mother. Had she stepped off, once? Had there been a journey she never told him about, a life tucked between the lines of her careful days? Leo had always been a man of lists