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?

Thomas and Karen were winter house sitters at 12,000 feet in the Montana mountains. Spring arrived, but not in the normal fashion. They found a stranger in the barn who was too sick to explain himself. Thomas heads down the mountain to find a deserted ranch and town except for one man dragging himself across a street.

Two guys volunteer to cook hamburgers at the company picnic. They have opposite temperaments. Can they survive a picnic without grilling each other?

"Everyone who goes in that room is a liar." That had to be a myth. There cannot be anything special about a silly little room. That's what I thought until I spent a couple of minutes in the room.

Jerry broke into computer systems. He had been doing this since the third grade. This time was different. This time Jerry was going walk into a corporate building and walk out with data in his hands. Would it work?

Ten-year-old Todd is going with his dad while his dad goes hunting. It is the longest, hardest, and most memorable day of his life.

An old man lives alone in a rusting house trailer. His home is about to become a golf course. A rising television reporter wants to cover a story about how new golf courses are enabling economic recovery. She finds something quite unexpected when the two meet.

Doug was standing in the rain waiting for his wife to pick him up. She was late, very late, and he was soaked. Just wait until she arrived. Doug would let her know how he felt. At least, that is what he thought.

Widowed ten years earlier, a man decides to have "a date." Planning for the worst, he uses a McDonalds in a Wal-Mart as a meeting place. He doesn't want to look old, so he must find something to do with his reading glasses before she arrives.

There are times in life when I am glad when someone taps me on the shoulder and returns me to sanity. Unfortunately, on this night when a stranger invited me into a mysterious building with no windows, no one tapped me on the shoulder.