Thao, Dustin

Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but then Sam died. Getting rid of his things and trying to erase him from her life is not working, so, desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cell phone. She expects to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their phones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.

Eric, a lonely nineteen-year-old grappling with the loss of his best friend, retreats into his imagination and finds solace in a memory of a day spent with a boy named Haru, but Eric's imagination and reality blur together when he walks into a coffee shop and sees Haru.

Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.