Two 6th-grade boys play a game of basketball. The game is a terrible mismatch. The victor is unable to come to terms with the outcome for 40 years.

An elderly widower finds a dog on his walk in the woods. The two become companions as the man cares for the dog and the dog watches the man.

David is on break from his dead-end job at the Dollar Store. A scruffy old man approaches him claiming to be his uncle who hasn't eaten in two days. David gives the old man his last $2. Something comes back in return later.

The pattern on the markers in the cemetery was unmistakable - the people here died before age 18 or after age 80. There was no one in between. Todd Minor was almost 18. Could he make it to 18 and thus have a full life ahead?

An old Soviet satellite is found in a pasture in Louisiana. No one knows why. This is only the beginning.

Jacob sits stunned in the woods next to his house. A schoolteacher turned guerrilla warfare recruiter explains to him that he just shot dead ten soldiers of an invading army. Jacob is now a hero, but he has also become something else, something he despises - a killer.

A fundamental task of ours is to test or experiment with our equipment...so began a report I wrote. We were struggling to build systems. Analysis showed that our basic problem was how we tested systems and reported the results. This booklet records time-honored fundamentals of testing and reporting on tests.

Brian Hough was robbed at gun point. Well, not really at gun point, and not really robbed, but attempted robbery by a bandit who could not hear and from a store that didn't have any money.

An unemployed man laments the closing of the local public library. He decides to do something about it.

Someone left the gate open and Tommy ran out from a small Louisiana town into the world of the professional gunman. I witnessed his life from a distance until he came home one Thanksgiving.

A young man stumbles in between college and having an semblance of knowing what he is doing as an "adult."

The new President announced his programs and conceded that they would "shake up" the economy for a few weeks. Twenty-one months later, the Freeman family struggled each day as the Great Depression pounded the 21st century American suburbs.