Mark Budman (markbudman.com) is a writer, inventor, engineer, translator, interpreter, and photographer. He is the publisher of the flash-fiction magazine Vestal Review and the author of the novel My Life at First Try. Born in the former Soviet Union, he now lives in Boston.
Illustration of Joseph dreaming. Public Domain.
A second-career medical interpreter for Russian immigrants in Boston contemplates his role—a biblical Joseph? a robot?—and the system that brings h…