You’re [eleven years old]/[forty-five] when you [move]/[return] to your childhood home. When you run your hand over the [wood lines]/[scars] of the desk in your [new]/[old] room, you see a corded phone under the desk. Pick it up with a sense of [curiosity]/[memory].

“Hello?” you [say]/[hear].

“This is the Oracle of all Wisdom,” you [hear]/[reply].

The sound of breathing down the line.

“I can ask you anything?”

“You can ask.”

You sit down to think of the right [questions]/[answers]. To wait for [what comes next]/[what comes next].