Smoke and Mirrors and the Butterfly Effect

A couple of years ago, I was in the process of writing my first novel, Call Out, and still had no idea how it was going to play out. I was on Facebook one night when I should have been writing, and I saw a comment from one of the guys on my friends list (how I even came to be in the right place at the right time to see that comment is a story all on its own). Bryan made some crack about coming out on the other side of the illness he was fighting as a...