Have you left a piece of yourself somewhere along the way?
A dream. A possibility. A version of yourself you once knew.
We all leave pieces of ourselves behind. We take one road instead of another. We miss an opportunity. We make a choice we wish we could make again. And sometimes, years later, we wonder who we might have been if we had turned left instead of right.
But what if some of those pieces aren’t really lost?
Pieces of Our Past: Stories of Our Future is a collection of stories about the dreams we carry, the paths we leave behind, and the quiet moments when we wonder who we might have been — and who we still could be.
Perhaps the past isn’t finished with us yet.
Sometimes it calls to us in the quiet of night. A memory we thought we’d buried. A choice we still wonder about. A life we sometimes imagine we might have lived. Something unresolved, waiting for us to find it.
In “Someone Anonymous,” the search for a missing piece of oneself takes center stage. SA is a gathering for people who feel that some essential part of themselves has been lost along the way — a place where they can begin the search to find themselves again. As the characters grapple with the possibility that a better version of themselves may be waiting just out of reach, they enter the enigmatic world of Someone Anonymous, where perhaps what they’re searching for has been with them all along.
“Charlie Hero” introduces Charlie Frieze, a fifty-year-old writer struggling to be seen in a world that has passed him by. Desperate to claim his voice and leave something lasting behind, Charlie takes a reckless gamble to write his magnum opus — risking everything for the chance to matter and be seen.
In the poignant “Baseball Dreams and Bikers,” Donny is a gifted high school baseball player with a bright future, until a fractured home life and the arrival of his ex-con biker uncle begin to unravel everything he thought was certain. With his parents separated and his father out of work, Donny’s mother tries desperately to hold it all together. As a teen caught between loyalty, expectation, and the pull of escape, Donny must navigate the consequences of his choices. Will he succumb to the pressures and risk losing not only his dream but also his family?
Each story explores the fragile territory between who we were, who we became, and who we might still become. Together, they offer a portrait of the dreams, regrets, relationships, and choices that shape our lives — and the possibility that the pieces we leave behind may still have something to teach us.
*This collection was previously published under the title Baseball Dreams and Bikers and is now relaunched under a title that more fully reflects the heart of these universal stories.
