The Lucky Few

 

They were born with the veil thin—gifted with sight they never asked for, peace they could never keep, and loneliness they could never name.

 

This is the story of what happened when they finally found each other.

 

Christopher Young sees what others cannot.

 

As a child, he drew the wheels with eyes that turned in his grandmother's reading room—angels, geometries of light, the hidden architecture of the divine. As a man, he became a physician, building a clinic in a forgotten neighborhood of Birmingham where he treats not just bodies, but the wounds medicine cannot measure: the grief sedimented in a widow's chest, the fear calcified around a father's heart, the accumulated trauma of a people who have spent generations being told their suffering is invisible.

 

His gift has saved lives. It has also made him a target.

 

Chad Johnson has spent his entire life giving away a peace that was never his to keep.

 

As a child, he calmed his mother's anxiety with nothing but his presence. As a man, he became "the Glue"—the unshakeable safety who held championship teams together, absorbing the panic of teammates and the roar of stadiums, transforming chaos into coherence. He was celebrated, decorated, and utterly empty.

 

Retirement did not bring peace. It brought the void he had been running from since he was nine years old.

 

When Chad's desperate attempt to heal a drowning rookie leaves him poisoned by the very gift that defined his existence, a whispered name sends him toward Birmingham—toward a quiet doctor who sees cold hands wrapped around terrified hearts, who speaks of wheels with eyes and the silence beneath the noise, who has been waiting his entire life for someone who can finally hear him.

 

Their meeting in an ordinary garden on an ordinary afternoon changes everything.

 

Together, they discover that their gifts are not separate faculties but two halves of a single instrument: one who sees the wound, one who holds the space for its healing. Together, they begin to build a lexicon for the invisible, a language of remembrance for all the gifted souls who have spent their lives believing they were alone.

 

But the world does not welcome what it cannot understand. A coordinated campaign of disinformation threatens to destroy everything Christopher has built. A medical board hearing will determine whether he can continue to practice medicine that acknowledges the whole patient—body, mind, and spirit. And in the shadows, a man with the same gift, forged in violence and wielded for manipulation, has taken notice of the circuit they have closed.

 

From the hold of a slave ship to the frozen hills of Korea, from Jim Crow Alabama to the locker rooms of the NFL, The Lucky Few traces the lineage of a gift that has been carried in silence for generations—and the two men who finally learn to speak its name.

 

It is a story about seeing and being seen.

About the loneliness of carrying what others cannot perceive.

About the courage it takes to stop running and simply stay.

About what happens when the healer finally learns to receive.

 

Because the gift was never meant to be carried alone.

The remembering continues. You are part of it now.

 

“They were not born lucky. They were born needed.”